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Ascii2

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• Oct 25, 2005

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Can a laser printer's procesor be overclocked?

Has a printer processor overclck already been done?

It would be great to push a printer's 500 MHz (as an example) to 650 MHz.

Any relevant information appreciated.

 

Schalldampfer

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• Oct 25, 2005

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Haha... I don't think it's the processor that's slowing down your printing speed... most likely it's due to the hardware limitations of printer itself, and there is no software mod you can do to speed it up.

 

Benvanz

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the only possible way to MAYBE do something like that would be a vmod possibly

 

IWasHungry

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• Oct 25, 2005

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LOL when I saw this thread I thought it was a joke.

TBH I'm not aware of any possible method to do so. A hardmod might work.

 

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hehe, set print quality to low, then itl speed up

 

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I think you could probably do it through hardware modification. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but you could try finding and replacing the crystal that generates the reference frequency with a faster one (or modifying the circuit that provides the signal to the CPU). You can overclock just about anything if you're smart enough, persistant enough and don't mind destroying a few in the process.

 

Albaholic

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I know its pointless to ask why, its something to overclock i guess. But what do you hope to acheieve by doing this. As others have already pointed out, it probably can be overclocked but it would do more harm than good.

 

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Albaholic said:

what do you hope to acheieve by doing this.

Click to expand...

A reduction in processing time.

 

Sjaak

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• Oct 27, 2005

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I don't think it will spew out pages faster...rather make it a nice test object for the hardware destruction thread.

 

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AFAIK, most printers aren't cpu-limited.

 

LordDarik

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This reminds me of when I overclocked my CD Drive...

 

darksparkz

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• Oct 27, 2005

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Put some lubircant on a color inkject printer and it might run a tad faster across the pages.

Maybe try using USB or parallel ports, and see which runs better, lol.

 

JCLW

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Actually, many laser printers are CPU limited.

I have an HP 1320N (133mhz processor, 144MB ram) with a print engine rated at 22ppm. However, only when printing simple text documents will it keep up at that speed. The jobs get sent to the printer very quickly (connected via 100mbit ethernet) but complicated jobs can take a while to process, especially PostScript ones.

 

Nickdeveau

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• Oct 29, 2005

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I don't see why you are getting such mixed responses on this. I mean, THIS IS OCFORUMS. Heh, give him some credit for wanting to push everything he owns to the max. I applaud your balls sir .. Well in a manner of speaking