cloader@kean.ucs.mun.ca (12/10/90)
I have just given DMP201 a trial with our laser printer hoping that it would speedup troughput. Well, it spools print files very nicely and release the computer as the files print. However, the files are printed very slowly. The spooler takes an awful lot of 'time out'. The net result is that printing is actually very much slower! System Laser 8286 clone running at 19200 bps through serial port XON/XOFF to a Laserjet II. Dumping EROFF print files. DMP201 would be useful if it worked faster. Any suggestions to cure this problem before I erase DMP201? Charles Loader
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (12/13/90)
In article <168272@kean.ucs.mun.ca> cloader@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes: | | I have just given DMP201 a trial with our laser printer hoping that | it would speedup troughput. I'm not sure that was the intent. What it seems to do is allow you to do other useful work with your computer rather than having it be a dedicated printer driver. Since the dedicate mode is undoubtedly the fastest, if your print load is so heavy that you run fulltime dedicated, or if there is no other useful work to do with the system while waiting for the output, then you may be better off without it. In general people find that they start a print job and then do something else, but that might not be what you need, or might take a bit of getting used to. If printing is a roadblock to the next thing you have to do I'd turn it off. If you have serial tasks (or a serial mind, or a printer so noisy you can't think while it runs), then you may not benefit. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) (12/14/90)
cloader@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
+I have just given DMP201 a trial with our laser printer hoping that
+it would speedup troughput.
+Well, it spools print files very nicely and release the computer
+as the files print. However, the files are printed very slowly. The
+spooler takes an awful lot of 'time out'. The net result is that
+printing is actually very much slower!
+Any suggestions to cure this problem before I erase DMP201?
Yes: get dmp203. It lets you control printing speed.
--richard