Printer spooler -- a reasonably fast one available?

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From: Karl Denninger
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 23:14

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Is there a replacement printer spooler around that is faster than the
horrible excuse that comes with Windows?  We're more than a little tired of
waiting for printer output (we're printing to a network device, and
getting only about 10% of the throughput that we should be getting -- direct
output to a LPx device is just as slow!)

What really gets me is that outputting to a >file< is extremely fast.  Why
isn't it just as fast going to the hardware device (the hardware CAN accept
the characters at that speed).

Any pointers appreciated.  We can ftp and uucp if needed.

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Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Printer spooler -- a reasonably fast one available?
Message-ID: <1990Jan16.231421.2478@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 23:14:21 GMT
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