INCREDIBLY SLOOOOOOOW PRINTING IN WINDOWS 3.1

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From: Richard Robb
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:48

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I had heard that printing to a Laserjet would be slow in Windows, but I
simply cannot believe anything can be as slow as I am experiencing.

Printing a received fax from my Frecom fax program takes about a minute or
two from DOS, but from Windows 3.1 it's taking almost 40 minutes per page!  I
expected a slowdown, but this is positively ridiculous.  Printing from Ami
Pro 3.0 is equally unacceptably slow.

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.

I have a 4 MB 386-16 SX system and a permanent swap file of about 5 MB.  I am
using Norton's cache, with an extended memory cache of about 2700 K.  My
printer is a LaserJet Series II.  I don't know how relevant any of the above
info may be, but I DESPERATELY need some tips on how to speed up my
printing!!!

Many thanks.

/Richard

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Subject: INCREDIBLY SLOOOOOOOW PRINTING IN WINDOWS 3.1
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