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From: barry@wolman.prime.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Why is printing slower with multifi
Message-ID: <107900003@wolman>
Date: 3 Sep 90 04:23:00 GMT
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Nf-From: wolman.prime.com!barry    Sep  3 00:23:00 1990


Under Finder an application has access to ALL of physical memory.  In
this case the Imagewriter printer driver generates each page of output
only once. 

Under Multifinder an application uses a partition determined by the
Finder application size attribute.  The driver tries to conserve space
by generating the output in approximately 19 horizontal bands.  This
slows things down quite a bit, because generating each band is done by
redrawing the entire page using a clipping region that corresponds to
the band. 

Unfortunately, increasing the application size doesn't help (in the
cases I tried).  When I write a large batch of checks with Managing Your
Money, I find it saves considerable time to reboot under Finder before
printing the checks and then reboot with Multifinder after they're done. 
If I'm only doing a few checks, I don't bother. 

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