Digital BW, The Print

Hi John,

Yes, the firewire connection is unlikely to speed up the printing.
You might find it useful to try other options to speed up printing.
For resolution there's 1440dpi and 1440super which are 4pass and 8pass
respectively.  The 8pass is more immune to banding but your printer
may do very well with 4pass -- I think many of the Pro printers can.
The other thing is the Faster/Better for bi-directional/uni-directional
printing -- again try it.

In the longer run I am looking at trying to improve the speed in general.

Roy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> 
> Roy,
> 
> I'm working out of the latest version of Panther with QTR and the 9600 and the 
> roll feature works fine, once you find the setting. But, I am using USB not 
> Firewire. I believe the firewire connection is just going to send the file over 
> there faster right? Not increase the actual print head movement itself right? 
> Yes its very slow but very outstanding output for toned monochrome.
> 
> John
> 
> > 
> > Epson doesn't say anything (that I can find) about connecting a printer 
> simultaneously
> > with both usb and firewire ports.  It doesn't buy any functionality so why not 
> > simplify and leave out the firewire.   USB is plenty fast for what the printer 
> can
> > handle.  (I think Tiger/Print System will support firewire so then QTR will 
> too).
> > 
> > The only thing I think is an issue with roll paper is that there is a minimum
> > length of 7 inches.  Info is very vague about a hardware limit.
> > 
> > Roy