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The Controller
Before a laser printer can do anything else, it needs to receive the
page data and figure out how it's going to put everything on the
paper. This is the job of the printer controller. The printer controller
is the laser printer's main onboard computer. It talks to the host
computer (for example, your PC) through a communications port,
such as a parallel port. At the start of the printing job, the laser
printer establishes with the host computer how they will exchange
data. The controller may have to start and stop the host computer
periodically to process the information it has received.
Printer Controller Inputs
Parallel Port
The original specification for
parallel ports was
unidirectional, meaning that
data only traveled in one
direction for each pin. With the
introduction of the PS/2 in 1987,
IBM offered a new
bidirectional parallel port
design. This mode is commonly
known as Standard Parallel
Port (SPP) and has completely
replaced the original design.
Bidirectional communication
allows each device to receive
data as well as transmit it.
Many devices use the eight pins
(2 through 9) originally
designated for data. Using the
same eight pins limits
communication to half-duplex,
meaning that information can
only travel in one direction at a
time. But pins 18 through 25,
originally just used as grounds,
can be used as data pins also.
This allows for full-duplex
(both directions at the same
time) communication.
Printer Speed
It may seem perfectly natural, when judging the
performance of a high-speed laser printer, to look at the
clock speed of the processor that's driving it. The more
megahertz, the better, right?
Not necessarily.
Clock speed - an indication of how many instructions per
second a processor can execute - as the measure of
performance in PCs. And many consider it the driving force
behind printer speed, which is the number of pages per
minute a printer can generate.
MIPS architecture
Of the current RISC architectures, the MIPS
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