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Pagestream & HP Laser

    16-Mar-90 23:29:48
Fm: Michael Gerard 75505,1757
To: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To print out a full page of text with graphics at 300DPI on HP laser, you're going to need at least 2.5 meg and probably 3 meg of ram IN THE PRINTER. The ram in the computer's cpu (unfortunately) is not what counts here. The computer creates an image of the page and actually downloads that to the printer…so the printer must have enough ram to receive that page. Some lasers will simply accept the input till they are full, and then print out what they have received, and then accept more, then print etc…. other lasers will give a memory full warning and wait for further instruction.