Re: [Gimp-print-devel] RE: Epson 1520 issues

[David R. <d_...@nc...>]

Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> 
> 
> Could you time it with a stopwatch and verify that the times really
> are about equal (or that microweave does better)?
> 

OK, here are the timings.  The image is 1272x1007 pixels and
was being printed at about 42% scale (resulting image was
about 9cm x 7.5cm).  The machine is a 233MHz pentium Pro:

MODE              PROCESSING TIME     PRINTING TIME  TOTAL TIME
720x720 microweave   40 sec.             62 sec.       102 Sec.
720x720 softweave    40 sec.             101 sec.      141 Sec.

As I had noticed previously, the microweave mode is somewhat
faster.

A few additional observations:

In softweave, the head makes four passes before advancing
the paper.  In microweave mode, the driver places the image
about 1cm or so lower on the page than in softweave mode
(letter, portrait); and in both cases, the image is somewhat
lower than one would assume from the print dialog.  This 
doesn't happen when printing from Windows applications, so
I assume it is not a printer issue.

Regards,

David