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tmplee@TIS.COM (Theodore Lee) writes:


>I recently just acquired a IIvx rather than some flavor of 486/50,
>partly on assurances that I could do everything I needed to on it,
>easier and just as fast as on a PC.  I find that one of those
>assurances may have been misleading.  After having tried what I think
>are all the appropriate applications or DA's/extensisons, I can't seem
>to find any way of getting downloaded postscript files to print *in
>the background*, i.e., using the PrintManager.  Is there some magic
>answer? (The LaserWriter Utility works just fine, but it sits in the
>foreground with the watch cursor and a dialogue window up. DTPrinter,
>EasyPrint treat the postscript file as text and print it that way;
>they would presumably work if there were a very simple application that
>just read the postscript file a byte at a time and shipped it off to
>printer-land.  PS Printer doesn't seem to work with the file manager;
>Adobe's PrintPS  doesn't even work, probably not system 7 compatible
>...)

I have a IIvx running a QMS postscript printer and have no trouble.  As soon
as I hit the print button and click OK it sends the file to the printer
(takes a few seconds) and VOILA I have my computer back.  The computer will
not work as fast but I can use it to do something else while the file is
being printed.