info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (11/10/84)
From: Henry.Kautz@rochester.arpa
As (Lewis@harvard) noted, when printing in draft mode the mac will
quite often put up the printer not responding message, and wait until
the user clicks continue. This particularly happens when the printed
file contains many blank and short lines. My theory is that the
printer's buffer initially fills up very quickly, but empties slowly,
because it takes longer to print linefeeds and returns than normal
characters, and that the printer doesn't look for more input until the
buffer is some percentage emptied. Meanwhile, the Mac times out and
puts up the error. Is this it, Apple people? Then how about
lengthening the timeout in the imagewriter file?
---- Henry Kautz
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