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Laser Color, Inexpensive and Quick
/ How Fast? Hmmm...
With an 80-KB JPEG file, the C55MP, running PostScript, delivered the first print of a photo in 45 to 50 seconds, with additional copies every 20 seconds (right on the 3-ppm claim), except for a
n occasional hesitation. But with the PCL driver, it took nearly 90 seconds for the first page.
Another photo, with heavy color, took nearly 6 minutes to print. A typographically complex WordPerfect page with two color JPEGs and clip art printed in 110 seconds (with PostScript or PCL). A simpler page with one JPEG printed in 64 seconds with PostScript, and 110 seconds with PC
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