Also, most printers tach rather generic memory... Joseph's HP takes standerd
72pin non-parity simms... I think I still have a bag of 8mb's I use for
keychains ;)
Or I could take some 16mb's from my dead 233 machine (yes the 6p will take
EDO mem as well) :)
These days I think it is mostly 168pin 100MHz SDRAM DIMMs which as also dirt
cheep... So if it has an expansion salot or offers a memory upgrade, do not
fear using generic memory.. printers are typicly nothing special and after
market upgrades are cheep.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> I've been running an HP 6P with 9M RAM for about 6-7 years. The amount
> of RAM generally needs to fit the following formula:
>
> ((<Printer DPI>^2 * 12) + (<Number of soft fonts> * 200k))/1048576 =
> minimum RAM in MB.
>
> Some printers are more, or less, efficient when using RAM, but the above
> makes a good rule of thumb.
>
> If you don't know how many soft fonts you'll generally use, assume 5 for
> business, 10 for home use, 20 for graphic artists or desktop publishing.
>
> You can often get by with less, but really complex pages, or large
> graphics, may fail to print.
>
> If you're using Postscript, add 8-16MB to the above for page processing
>
> If the Laser supports color, quadruple the RAM required.
>
> If you're using an HP with a JetDirect card, you should add another
> 8-16MB, per HP's recommendations, for network spooling.
>
>
> Alex Dean wrote:
>
> > I'm considering getting away from my current Canon inkjet (which I
> > hate) and getting a laser printer. I have one question for those of
> > you knowlegeable about such things...
> > How much memory should I be looking for? Most of the cheaper ones
> > come with 16MB, and some are not upgradable. Is that enough?
> >
> > I know 'enough' is relative, so here's my situation. The printer is
> > for home use. It will be hooked up to a local network and serving 3
> > different computers. (Win, Lin, and Mac) I'll be printing less than
> > 500 pages per month, mostly text but also some graphics.
> >
> > thanks,
> > alex
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