Hi, ECP is an enhanced communication protocol between you computer hardware and the printer. It requires an IEEE cable and your computer bio must support it. it can also allow for DMA setup to talk for faster commnunications with the printer.
ECP help in communication but that is where there the relationship to RAW/EMF formats. the RAW format is less overhead than EMF Hope this helps Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized WiTango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WiTangoGoodies.htm latest beta downloads @ http://www.witango.ws -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tellef Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:32 PM To: All Subject: Slow printing - what's ECP? A client just bought a dandy new 24ppm printer and is thrilled with the speed. But on one print job (printing about 800 client statements one at a time, RBWin) said the speed seems to be about half. Her network guy kept the same printer driver of the older model (same make) that it replaced; wanted to make sure nothing screwed up for RBDos. He said that if he installed the new driver, then he could set the 'spool data format' to ECP instead of EMF and that it would be faster. Anyone heard of ECP and whether that would be true? Another thought -- since it is printing one at a time, does the timeout setting affect the time it waits between printing each page? Would this be a network timeout (W2K) or the printer's timeout? In the RBWin program, it should be no more than a second between printing each report. Thanks! Karen ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
