Can Meteor support different print head types in one printer?
Yes. Several customers already do this with Meteor. Do you use Ethernet to connect the heads? We use standard cat 5 Ethernet cables, but the signals are not Ethernet, for example we supply power to the head driver cards as well as data signals within the Ethernet cable Is USB2.0 fast enough for my system? In every situation we have considered USB2.0 is fast enough. Whilst it is tricky for the novice developer to establish reliable communications at high speed using USB, Meteor has been developed, tested and is used at speeds of 30-40 MBytes/sec continuous. Meteor can therefore be used in a FIFO (first-in first-out) continuous data mode for systems with a great many heads. Meteor is also used in enormous print systems by using either a pre-load data mode (the images are transferred before printing from the PC to the Meteor electronics and held there for multiple use) or a mixed data mode in which background images are pre-loaded and variable data is superimposed at the time of printing
