gh0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gordon Hester) (03/21/90)
I was trying to print a set of presentatio slides on my deskwriter the other day and found it incredibly slow - it put out only one page every 50 minutes or so!! The material was text only, landscape orientation, in helvitica bold font, 18 and 24 point. I had the font substitution turned on, so Triumvirate Narrow (I think, I don't have the manual here at work) should have been substituted. I was under the impression that 18 and 24 point were available (in bold, too) in the fonts that come with the deskwriter. I ended up going to my office to print on the laserprinter there. I couldn't see waiting 18 hours for 21 measly little pages to print out, especially since I couldn't use the mac during the printing! Any ideas why I had this problem and how I might avoid it in the future? Thanks. gordon hester
neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Dave Neff) (03/22/90)
Regarding DeskWriter speed in landscape: Without knowing more, I would assume you are using a 1 Meg Mac and some memory hungry application (the latest version of Word maybe?). The DeskWriter driver is just working like crazy to try to format the document in such little available RAM. Your best bet would be to add RAM to your system. The second approach would be to somehow free up RAM like using fewer INITs. On a 1 Meg Mac with some applications the DeskWriter is pretty marginal in the performance department -- regretably. Fortunately RAM prices are pretty good lately. You would get many benefits of adding RAM. The DeskWriter will also perform faster if you have a RAM cache of around 64K -- assuming you have enough spare RAM in the first place (2 meg or more). If you have more than 1 meg on your system already, the above comments do not apply, and I haven't a clue as to your difficulty. Dave Neff neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM
stevem@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Steve Miller) (03/28/90)
>If you have more than 1 meg on your system already, the above comments >do not apply, and I haven't a clue as to your difficulty. If you have more than 1 Meg of RAM, are running under Multifinder, and getting slow printouts, try increasing the amount of RAM allocated to the application you are using. (Use "Get Info" from the Finder) Some applications just need a little more RAM than the default shipped by the software company. Steven Miller Vancouver Division Hewlett Packard