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In a recent article GuestRA writes:
>
>We are experiencing an error when printing large jobs on our laserwriter
>(about 14 pages of viewgraphs).  We are running the latest stuff and
>Multifinder with background printing on a Mac II.  PrintMonitor says it got
>a timeout (this happens after printing about half of the pages) and
>recommends trying again.  However, it tries to start the job over from the
>beginning and simply times out again in the same place.

I have experienced this when running programs in the foreground that don't
give up enough time to other tasks under MultiFinder (the Print Spooler being
one of those tasks).  So the Laserwriter times out because it doesn't
get enough data fast enough.  I believe this time constant can be changed
in the LaserPrep file (I'll check) using settimeout or setjobtimeout or
some such.

If you leave PrintMonitor frontmost, it will probably not timeout, but that
isn't much fun now that we finally have background printing.

-Eric

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Eric K. Olson     olson@endor.harvard.edu     harvard!endor!olson     D0760
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