Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Landscape printing

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex,
> > The printer is taking a long to render these designs (~10-15 minutes for
> > the amurdove and fill types), XaraLX is printing them in ~5 seconds.
>
> That's a bit odd. When you say "render" do you mean the start to the
> end of a progress bar in LX? That's never taken me more than 20 seconds.
> Or do you mean the time taken until first page out? That takes a fair
> while if Ghostscript has lots of bitmaps to do, made worse by the fact
> I'm not reading the printer's resolution and assuming 600dpi at the 
> moment.
> If the printer is (say) 150dpi colour, that's 16 times as much work to 
> do.
No, the printer is doing all the rendering work (it being PS based). 
This is probably why printing seems so slow. The printer is a HP Color 
LaserJet 4500, via JetDirect. Once XaraLX has finished printing 
processor usage drops to zero (but I imagine that the printers processor 
usage sticks at 100%).

   Luke