Re: [NTLK] IrDA

At 8:46 PM -0500 12/11/06, John wrote:
>Am printing direct from a 2100 to a LaserJet 6MP, using the 5MP IrDA
>printer selected from within the Newton as it's the closet match.
>Works find, but really slow. Did some preliminary searching and got
>lazy after following some dead ends.
>
>Is there a way to speed up the spooling? It's taking several *minutes*
>to print a TimeTrax(TM) weekly calendar, albeit I am certainly aware
>something like a note or plain text is much quicker to eject a page.

I seem to remember that printing via IrDA was quite slow, perhaps on
the order of a few hundred bytes per second. If you are printing
large or particularly complex documents you could be seeing the
effects of putting a big pool through a small hose.

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