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From: neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Dave Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: HP Deskwriter:landscape print speed
Message-ID: <19640013@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 22:32:46 GMT
References: <sa1dqCO00UhBM2Xlo0@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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Regarding DeskWriter speed in landscape:

Without knowing more, I would assume you are using a 1 Meg Mac and some
memory hungry application (the latest version of Word maybe?).  The
DeskWriter driver is just working like crazy to try to format the document
in such little available RAM.

Your best bet would be to add RAM to your system.  The second approach
would be to somehow free up RAM like using fewer INITs.  On a 1 Meg
Mac with some applications the DeskWriter is pretty marginal in the
performance department -- regretably.  Fortunately RAM prices are
pretty good lately.  You would get many benefits of adding RAM.
The DeskWriter will also perform faster if you have a RAM cache of
around 64K -- assuming you have enough spare RAM in the first place
(2 meg or more).

If you have more than 1 meg on your system already, the above comments
do not apply, and I haven't a clue as to your difficulty.

Dave Neff
neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM