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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DMP201
Message-ID: <2593@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 02:32:38 GMT
References: <168272@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <168272@kean.ucs.mun.ca> cloader@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
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| I have just given DMP201 a trial with our laser printer hoping that
| it would speedup troughput.

  I'm not sure that was the intent. What it seems to do is allow you to
do other useful work with your computer rather than having it be a
dedicated printer driver. Since the dedicate mode is undoubtedly the
fastest, if your print load is so heavy that you run fulltime dedicated,
or if there is no other useful work to do with the system while waiting
for the output, then you may be better off without it.

  In general people find that they start a print job and then do
something else, but that might not be what you need, or might take a bit
of getting used to. If printing is a roadblock to the next thing you
have to do I'd turn it off. If you have serial tasks (or a serial mind,
or a printer so noisy you can't think while it runs), then you may not
benefit.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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