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by Hellion 1189 days ago
> and memory on the computer to hold an entire page of pixels. I mean, at 72dpi that's 50KB just for the data!

Fwiw it was common for text editors at the time to render/raster in chunks and then send that off to the printer. For complicated documents, the printer sometimes had to take pauses while the computer worked