>>>>Experients from real world.
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>>>>XFRX#INIT fasters by 10% is more then 10 minutes speedy for report with cca 600 pages.
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>>>In real world, I've seen such reports. The longer it is, the more meaningless it becomes, and its results are less usable. One such report was about 200kg of paper. We actually printed only one third of it and then decided to wait until they noticed that two thirds were missing. They never did. Actually, their staff took only... about a quarter of what we printed, and never took the rest.
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>>>We sold the paper to recycling and had free coffee for two or three months, which was just about the only useful outcome. On top of teaching someone a palpable lesson about the size of the reports.
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>>600 pages is only 3kg taking standard 80g/m² or 1 1/5 package. Will be very American coffee :)
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>1) it was A3
>2) 600 pages is what Martina had. This was thousands of pages. I think we use eight boxes of paper until we ran out of patience. The line printer at 1200 lpi, with character band (if you remember those) is very noisy. And it took so long that we couldn't stay out of that room all the time, so at times someone had to endure the noise of two printers hitting it in parallel
>3) the stacks which remained were about a meter high, IIRC. Two or two and a half of them.
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>Completely useless. Just finding what you need in there was nearly impossible.
I mean 600pages could be something that might be split into separate units. I mean 60 units 10 page each is nothing to unusual. Thousands of A3 at once. Well, we all pray nobody needs this at once. But the most important output must be paper, comes in DIN A3 and yes it might be a big stack. The deal is not to print - each page must be hand signed by at least two persons ... And they must be sure what they sign. There is danger in it.
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