barry@wolman.prime.com (09/03/90)
Under Finder an application has access to ALL of physical memory. In
this case the Imagewriter printer driver generates each page of output
only once.
Under Multifinder an application uses a partition determined by the
Finder application size attribute. The driver tries to conserve space
by generating the output in approximately 19 horizontal bands. This
slows things down quite a bit, because generating each band is done by
redrawing the entire page using a clipping region that corresponds to
the band.
Unfortunately, increasing the application size doesn't help (in the
cases I tried). When I write a large batch of checks with Managing Your
Money, I find it saves considerable time to reboot under Finder before
printing the checks and then reboot with Multifinder after they're done.
If I'm only doing a few checks, I don't bother.
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Barry Wolman | barry@s66.prime.com
Principal Technical Consultant | 500 Old Connecticut Path
Prime Computer | Framingham, MA 01701
| 508/879-2960, ext. 1100
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