Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott D. Camp) (05/06/90)
I hope this request belongs here and not in comp.sys.mac.system. Since they are carried away in the system group with discussing multitasking, I thought I'd try here first. :-) I recently purchased SuperLaserSpool to give me spooling capabilities with my DeskWriter. I must say I really like getting control over the Mac back when I print a job. Thank you SuperMac. However, I do have a question about the speed at which jobs print. It seems that it takes a lot longer to print a job with SuperLaserSpool installed, even when the Mac is doing nothing else. Let me give you an example. A Word 4.0 file, 10K, takes about 2 minutes and 23 seconds to print in best mode without SuperLaserSpool installed. [Mac SE, 20 meg hard disk with about 5 meg free, System 6.05, only a couple of inits, Word 4.00b] With SuperLaserSpool installed, the same files takes about 3 minutes and 33 seconds to print. Note: I just let the Mac sit idle when I printed this file via SuperLaserSpool. [Note: I haven't done extensive testing. It just feels slow when I print, especially when I'm late for class and need to print off a copy of a lecture.] My question, is this normal behavior? I have tried very hard to follow the SuperLaserSpool installation instructions, i.e., I dropped the init into the System Folder, installed Laser Queue with Font/DA mover 3.8, made sure to remove Backgrounder and Print Monitor, even increased the Print Buffer from 256K (recommended minimum for use with DeskWriter) to 384K. Maybe I'm just expecting too much. If so, let me know gently. :-) Even with the delays (which would probably become substantial when I print 40 page chapters of my dissertation), I am really hooked on SuperLaserSpool and would recommend it to anyone. If I'm really in a hurry, I can always deinstall it via Laser Queue. Otherwise, I can stack up those spool files and go have lunch. Scott D. Camp Q8N@PSUVM.PSU.EDU The Pennsylvania State University 305 Oswald Tower University Park, PA 16802 814-863-0121