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Article #13348My very slow LaserWriter LS
From: Jeff Ondich
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 16:43
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 16:43
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I recently purchased a Personal LaserWriter LS. When I print from commercial software, the speed of printing isn't great, but it is tolerable (from MS Word 4.0, a bit less than 1 page/min). When I print from software I have written myself, I get about 1 page every 3 to 4 minutes (text only--nothing fancy). This is not tolerable. I am working on a Mac Plus with 2.5Meg and a 40Meg SCSI hard drive. When I print from my program, I notice that the hard disk is being accessed a lot. So here are my questions. Is there something about TrueType and the way it interacts with QuickDraw that makes some QuickDraw commands particularly expensive? For example, should I try to minimize my calls to DrawString()? I've noticed that this printer driver seems to be draft-mode only. Is that relevant? I would be greatly indebted for any help you can give me. I do not relish living forever with these four minute waits for every page. Thanks. Jeff Ondich St. Olaf College Math Department ondich@stolaf.edu (507) 663-3115
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!news.stolaf.edu!ole4.math.stolaf.edu!ondich From: ondich@stolaf.edu (Jeff Ondich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: My very slow LaserWriter LS Message-ID: <1991May6.164343.13594@news.stolaf.edu> Date: 6 May 91 16:43:43 GMT Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu Distribution: na Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN USA Lines: 26 Originator: ondich@ole4.math.stolaf.edu