neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Neil Radisch) (12/11/87)
Does a imagewriter driver for the mac exist that supports spooling and background printing. If so where can I get it. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove | | all doubt" --- Abraham Lincoln | | | | neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
smh@mhuxu.UUCP (S. M. Henning) (12/13/87)
In article <2784@super.upenn.edu>, (Neil Radisch) writes: > Does a imagewriter driver for the mac exist that supports spooling > and background printing. If so where can I get it. Yes, MacServe version 2.1 does this. I have been using it for over a year with fantastic results. There are several problems, when I use VersaTerm-PRO I must never unselect the Imagewriter but can shut the Imagewriter or Imagewriter II off and then on. If I unselect and the select the Imagewriter using the switch on the Imagewriter, MacServe seems to be unable to find the printer again. **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxu!smh
kck@wdl1.UUCP (Karl C. Kelley) (12/15/87)
I am one of those who has/had a perfectly ordinary and acceptable spooler for the Mac and Imagewriter, it is/was put out by the same people who did SuperLaser Spool. The problem is, when you go to multifinder, you lose that capability. I find this rather incongrous, since one would think that with multifinder it should be trivial to make a program to do the job. Indeed, multifinder comes with something that does the job for laserwriters. It is a full sweep for Apple's kindness in giving us something "free"....they effectively knock the feet out from under the vendor of Superlaserspool, yet don't go far enough to solve the problem entirely. At the A32 club meeting in November, a large number of people were similarly disgruntled at having spooling taken away by multifinder. The multifinder is handy enough that my choice is to do without spooling for a few more weeks in hopes that some enterprising soul will remedy the situation. I hope to read about it here. The vendor is SuperMac. My local sources tell me they are working on an upgrade for the Imagewriter Spooler. I actually hope they also fix their SuperLaser Spooler, since it seems to have a little more than the Apple freebie.
cs162fed@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins) (12/16/87)
Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: In article <4210010@wdl1.UUCP> kck@wdl1.UUCP (Karl C. Kelley) writes: >I am one of those who has/had a perfectly ordinary and acceptable spooler >for the Mac and Imagewriter, it is/was put out by the same people who did >SuperLaser Spool. The problem is, when you go to multifinder, you lose that >capability. Surprising. I've been running SuperSpool 4.0 without trouble under MultiFinder 1.0 for months. The only problem I found was configuring it to start MultiFinder after loading, since SuperSpool will only chain to an application, not (as MF is) a system file. My solution to that problem was: 1. Use Set Startup in the Finder to make SuperSpool the startup application, but NOT under MultiFinder. 2. Move an application -- any application -- into the System folder and name it MultiFindex 3. Run SuperSpool (or reboot), click on the SuperSpool screen when it comes up, and change the chained application to MultiFindex. 4. Later, with a byte-editing utility (I used Fedit+) search for the ASCII string MultiFindex in the SuperSpool file, and change it to MultiFinder. (Actually, the chain file name may be in some easy-to-edit resource, but I neglected to check ResEdit.) Pretty straightforward, and has worked ignorably well since. Grobbins grobbins%sdemlab@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu ..ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdemlab!grobbins