doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner) (04/19/91)
We have a couple of Laserwriters on our network, and use the Appleshare print spooler on a MacPlus with a 40 meg hard disk. When you print something, the print data is intercepted by the spooler and saved on its hard disk. Later the spooler sends it to the printer. But the Laserwriters run some derivative of the Mac OS. Hard disks can be attached directly to them and used for fonts--so you don't have to download fonts. Wouldn't it make more sense to locate the print spooler in the laserwriter itself, using it's own local hard disk? With the present set-up, the print data must be transmitted over the network twice, once to the spooler and then from there to the printer. Is there some reason why the spooling can't be done by the printer itself? John E. Doner doner@henri.ucsb.edu (805)893-3941 Dept. Mathematics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106