I have a Xerox XPrint 4920 Plus colour laser printer here, and I see where you're coming from with this question. The thing I'm wondering is why the printer you have doesn't do the job-splitting for you...
Colour toners for this bad-boy cost about $350 CDN each (C,M,Y) and the black toner is only about 60-80 bucks CDN. The difference in price (and speed, as B&W prints come out at 12ppm vs. 3ppm for colour) means that I can use this printer for both my colour and black&white needs. Obviously, B&W is higher quantity, and when printing mixed documents, it seems stupid to print through the CMYK process...
Well, here's where the printer gets smart -- it doesn't print the pure B&W pictures through the CMYK process. It appears that the printer figures out that it only needs the black toner and just sends the page there.
I don't see why you would need to split the actual printers if the printer *should* be doing the splitting for you (and keeping costs down adequately). I guess the particular printer you're using must have a very expensive black toner...
NOTE: The XPrint 4920 Plus was introduced in '95 and is by no means a 'new' printer.
Not to bash Gnome, but I've had plenty of troubles getting a clean install of any linux disto w/ Gnome as the default work consistently among more than 2 reboots. Icons disappearing, bitmaps getting corrupted out of the blue, etc...
It seems a bit odd that Sun is making Gnome the default desktop just out of the blue like this without first distributing it as simply an 'alternative'.
Does anyone agree? Am I misinformed about Gnome becoming the new default.
-C
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I am surprised no one else has pointed this out.
Mr. Soto says he also has bought some adult DVDs and videos via spam, but never got around to marketing them.
Rrright... Why do I have a hard time believing that was his purpose for buying those tapes? :)
I have a Xerox XPrint 4920 Plus colour laser printer here, and I see where you're coming from with this question. The thing I'm wondering is why the printer you have doesn't do the job-splitting for you... Colour toners for this bad-boy cost about $350 CDN each (C,M,Y) and the black toner is only about 60-80 bucks CDN. The difference in price (and speed, as B&W prints come out at 12ppm vs. 3ppm for colour) means that I can use this printer for both my colour and black&white needs. Obviously, B&W is higher quantity, and when printing mixed documents, it seems stupid to print through the CMYK process... Well, here's where the printer gets smart -- it doesn't print the pure B&W pictures through the CMYK process. It appears that the printer figures out that it only needs the black toner and just sends the page there. I don't see why you would need to split the actual printers if the printer *should* be doing the splitting for you (and keeping costs down adequately). I guess the particular printer you're using must have a very expensive black toner... NOTE: The XPrint 4920 Plus was introduced in '95 and is by no means a 'new' printer.
Not to bash Gnome, but I've had plenty of troubles getting a clean install of any linux disto w/ Gnome as the default work consistently among more than 2 reboots. Icons disappearing, bitmaps getting corrupted out of the blue, etc... It seems a bit odd that Sun is making Gnome the default desktop just out of the blue like this without first distributing it as simply an 'alternative'. Does anyone agree? Am I misinformed about Gnome becoming the new default. -C "All the world is like cereal. If you're not a fruit or a nut, you're a flake."