🚀 go-pugleaf

gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx) writes:

>From article <19230@mindlink.bc.ca>, by Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb):
>> I have de-selected Print Manager, and am using the so-called fast direct
>> printing to port.  As I read the manual and help files, this should speed up
>> printing, but no such luck.

>Actually, one of the authors in the January PC WORLD or PC COMPUTING
>magazine tested the "direct printing to port" and reported it to be
>slower, in most cases.  You might want to read this issue as it has
>some tips on speeding up printing.  I can't remember which of the
>two magazines it was in, but I know it was the January issue.

PC/COMPUTING.  Apparently, checking "direct printing to port" gives your
print job a SMALLER slice of CPU time than it gets by going through the DOS
interface.  So check this box only if you don't want printing to slow down
whatever other Windows or background applications you may be running.

---------
Dave Douglass  Manager Computer Services  Department of Psychology/RUCCS
Busch Campus  Rutgers University  Piscataway, NJ  08855
daved@cogsci-1.rutgers.edu