consp22@bingsuns.pod.binghamton.edu (Darren Handler) (10/27/89)
I am one of the few satisfied ImageWriter LQ owners. The quality and color sort of makes up for the speed. I know that system 7 will background it, is there anything out there now that will background the printer. The spooler that came with my PCPC drive only seems to work with an Imagewriter I or II. Any ideas anybody? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Consp22@Bingsuns.pod.binghamton.edu | SUNY-B Computer Consultants - | | | Trying to keep the world safe from | |---------------------------------------| the SUNY-B Computer users. | | System Consultant - World Computers |-------------------------------------| | Computer Cons. - SUNY Binghamton | Darren `Mac Hack' Handler | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| If all the world is a stage, then it needs better lighting.
pj@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Jacoby) (10/27/89)
Darren writes: >>there anything out there now that will background the printer. The spooler that came with my PCPC drive only seems to work with an Imagewriter I or II. Any ideas anybody? << I have recently discovered and started playing with an INIT called MultiSpool. It is by Giuseppe Carnevale of Napoli, Italy. It is a hybrid INIT/DA/application that installs at startup time as an INIT, is accessed as a DA, and runs background printing as an Application! How does he do that?? In any case, it seems to work very nicely on my INIT-laden SE/30 under System 6.0.4. The DA allows you to monitor and alter the print queue. Files are spooled to a folder in the System Folder, and printing can be suspended and resumed at will. It seems to be very MF friendly--more often that not IT will pause, rather than grinding your application to a halt. I have noticed that it appears to flush the event queue when it has to access the spooled files from disk--keystrokes and mouse clicks simultaneous to disk access will be lost. Other than that, it looks to be very stable at version 1.0. .-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | UUCP: {rosevax, crash, orator}!orbit!pnet51!pj | Working with idiots keeps | | ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!pj@nosc.mil | my life interesting... | | INET: pj@pnet51.cts.com | | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'