RAM upgrade in laser printer - worth it?

[ajskydiver]

After asking for and receiving many positive recommendations for the NEC Superscript 870 printer, I ordered one and it's fantastic -Thanks so much everyone!

It will support a 16MB simm upgrade...since I'm addicted to upgrading, I am wondering if I should...will I notice a difference or would it just help in the printing of really large files?

Opinions, suggestions? Do I just crave this upgrade needlessly or what?

Thanks!

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

like all things, the performance increase will depend on your useage.
If the printer is printing very large files all of the time, the yes a ram upgrade will help. Also if the printer is being used in a network environment.
If you print large graphics the again it will help.

Otherwise you may not really see any gain, but i can't see a memory grade hurting performance.

 

[Lore]

When I used to publish a lot of Pagemaker files, the extra RAM in my HP Laserjet 6MP helped dramatically. All my images came out after the upgrade.

 

[Windogg]

I upgraded the memory in my 870 just because I had some old SIMMs lying around collecting dust. Might as well put them to work.

Windogg

 

[ajskydiver]

Thanks Everyone...if I can get my hands on some simms, I'll definitely try it out

 

[HaVoC]

Aj_UF: Like you I had the itch to upgrade even my printer. I added 4MB to get 6MB total. It worked fine in Win98, though I don't think I really needed. However, the Win2000 drivers cause corrupted printouts when I try to specify 6MB. Forcing 2MB makes it work fine. I spend only $7 on the memory so no big deal.

I think the memory will only make a difference in a networking environment when you have many jobs printing at once.

 

[DaddyG]

Increasing the memory of your laser printer will not increase the speed. With a laser the memory holds the image to be printed, if you don't have enough memory, uyou will get an error message. This normally happens with large graphics files. There's a slight possibilty that the printer can accept new data into unused memory as the the print engine is printing an image from existing memory but I'm not sure that this printer can really multi-task.