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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printing Questions -  LaserW NT, backgrounding w/ multifinder, more
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Date: 28 Mar 90 18:27:33 GMT
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In article <9324@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> pa1743@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jethro Bodean) 
writes:
>         I've recently started running multifinder and have some
> questions about background printing.  I have backgrounder in my SYS
> folder and it seems to background SOME - but I still have to wait
> while it processes - which TIFF files in Pagemaker is a long time.
> Is this avoidable at all?!?

Well, when a print job is spooled to be run in the background, the 
application has to do all the imaging, which goes into a spool file 
instead of to the printer.  This happens in the foreground and takes some 
time -- more for a complex imaging job, such as a TIFF file.  No free 
lunch, I'm afraid.

>         I've also run into files that my NT won't print out.  They
> are Pagemaker files with scanned in grayscale pics inserted - it
> processes for half and hour and I get zippo.. I think my print
> driver is 5.2 is there a 6.0?

Yes, the 6.0 LaserWriter software will print greyscale images (assuming 
Pagemaker does the right thing, which it probably does).

David Casseres
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