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Re: gEDA-user: free technology printer

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:47 am, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> A drum culd be used where a paper would be attached and revolving at
> high speed, dragging the jet with a screw. So that a drum-scanner-like
> setup would be made. The print would be uniform and the device easily
> serviceable. The print would be slow but that's what doesn't matter
> for me :)

If speed does matter, you can use N heads, to print N pixels 
concurrently.  These heads would be spaced equidistantly along the page 
path.  The drum would need to traverse only H/N distance, where H is the 
page height in your favorite units, and N is the number of heads.

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Samuel A. Falvo II