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In article <4438@saturn.ucsc.edu> bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Bushnell) writes:
>Hello:
>	Upon reading through my Macintosh SE owner's manual, I noticed that
>Apple's system software supports background printing on the laser printer, but
>I was dismayed to find that I could not use background printing on the 
>Imagewriter.  (I happen to be using an Imagewriter I.)  Since I occasionally
>print rather long documents, I would like to be able to use the computer
>while the printer is printing.  Does System software release
>6.0 offers background Imagewriter printing?  Better yet, does anyone have an
>Imagewriter driver or INIT, etc. that allows background printing or spooling?


System 6.0 does not offer background printing for the Imagewriter.  Makes me
wonder about future Apple support for non-laser printers.  I guess the
priority was on getting laser-writer spooling since Macs are moving into the
corporate world these days, but considering the speed difference between
lasers and dot matrix printers, spooling seems more necessary on the latter.

I had two spoolers that used to work until I got multifinder: Superspool and
Maxprint.  Anyone know the story?  Do either of these have multifinder
compatible versions?  Are there any good PD or SW spoolers that work under
multifinder?
While I'm on the subject, there used to be a nice DA called savior which did
auto-saves at user set time intervals in any application.  It also doesn't
work under MF.  Anyone know of an update, or a similar program that does
work under MF?

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