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In article <1407@crpmks.UUCP> dans@crpmks.UUCP (Dan Simoes ) writes:
>I am running WFW on a Gateway 386-25 (non-cache) with an 80mb IDE (17ms)
>drive, and printing on a Panasonic KXP1124 printer.
>To print a 10 page paper using Helvetica 13 points, double spaced takes about
>40 minutes!!

If you are using Helvetica 13 with a KX-P1124, you are obviously using ATM.
ATM prints in graphics mode, because the printer only supports one size
soft font (and Windows doesn't support them, anyway).  Graphics mode on a
dot matrix printer is inherently slow.  It's not WFW's fault.

>There is a lot
>of hard drive access going on, right until the last page.

Yes, because a graphics dump is very large.

>Draft mode (in WFW)
>takes exactly the same time, and produces the same visible results (to my
>eyes).

That's because Draft mode (in WFW) only affects how you see the document on
screen.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with printing.

>How can I speed this up, and can I print out quick rough copies
>somehow?

You can speed it up by buying a faster printer.
You can print out quick rough copies by using one of the printer's internal
fonts and setting the printer to draft mode with the EZ-set control panel
(for some reason, the Epson driver doesn't support draft mode).

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Jason Merrill					jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu