info-mac@uw-beaver (01/11/85)
From: Greensid%PPL@LLL-MFE.ARPA Can someone please explain why printing with the Imagewriter in high resolution mode is so slow? Even when the System, Finder, MacWrite, and Imagewriter documents are all in RamDisk, the printer spends seconds at the ends of pages or at the end of some paragraphs before continuing with its line by line scan. What is it doing that takes so much time? As one irritating example, I was printing out a three page document that had several empty lines at the end (some carriage returns to take me to the next page). In high resolution mode, the Imagewriter was taking over five seconds to print those blank lines. This continues to be one of the serious weak spots in using the Macintosh for everyday correspondence: it takes much too long to print out a high quality page.