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To: DismalScientist who wrote (9826)	1/1/2000 8:44:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Alan what type of interface does your HP722C printer have and what operating system are you using? Theoretically a printer with an USB or Ethernet interface, PCI NIC required, will use considerably fewer CPU cycles to transmit data to a printer. The USB and a PCI NIC use DMA, direct memory access, and can send data to a printer unsupervised by a CPU. Where as with a parallel printer interface the CPU must supervise the transmission of every byte of data.