Six of one, half a dozen of the other

I just read the following in a brochure:

(Such and such) is optimized for label printing with the ability to print 2” per second in black and 10’ per minute with full color.

Unit conversion in comparisons can be used to make a stat seem better than it really is (or worse, if that’s your goal). Color printing is usually slower than B&W printing (on account of there being a lot more data/work involved), and I’m curious how much slower it is, but in this case, I think someone just messed up:

  • 10’ = 120”
  • 1 minute = 60 seconds
  • 120” per 60 seconds = 2” per second

I wonder if it was supposed to be 10” per minute instead of 10’…

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