On 07-06-04, Mike Powell said to Jean Parrot:

JP>        This has been noted here. I have two printers, one LPT1 and one
JP> USB and they are a world of difference when used. I have dedicated one
JP> to B&W and tother to CYMB. Seeing as CYMB printing is duty heavy, that
JP> is the USB one.

MP>Is CYMB another way of saying "color"?  Are heavy duty
appliance better
MP>suited for USB, rather than parallel ports?

Actually, the bus used to transfer data, especially for a printer, is less of
an issue than the speed of processing of the print job by both the CPU as well
as the printer.  A parallel port may work fine if the bottleneck is the
printer.  If the printer pauses because it's out of data to process, THEN it's
time to change the bus for performance reasons.  Of course, you may want to
use a particular bus for other reasons, too, such as ease of connection, etc.


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