Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!grahamt From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: DESKJET 500 printer driver Message-ID: <4447@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 7 Feb 91 18:43:04 GMT References: <8558@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK Lines: 34 From article <8558@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, by jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik): > Hewlett-Packard is finally shipping the printer drivers that allows you > to use the DESKJET 500 under Windows 3.0. Assuming this is the 'scalable font driver', I have a query that probably doesn't relate to the original posting (which was about the way the driver tries to print an extra line on each page). The docs with the driver say that it will print more slowly than the old one. My question is, how slow should we expect it to be? We tried it on our 2mb PS/2 55s and had to wait over two minutes for the first page of text (in Times Roman, but no fancy formatting) to appear - we're using Word for Windows. Trying the same thing on an otherwise identical 4mb machine resulted in a quicker printout (approx. 1 min 15 secs for the first page.) Microsoft UK say 2mb should be ample memory. We can get things to move faster by giving Print Manager high priority, or by bypassing it altogether, but it's still much slower than the old driver and there's still a difference between the 2mb and 4mb machines. Does anyone have any tips on how to get a faster printout. I've tried tweaking config.sys files and doing various things suggested in the 'optimising Windows' section of the Windows manual, but there may well be things I've missed, as I've mostly worked in non-PC environments up to now. Thanks, Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK INTERNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma BITNET: grahamt%sussex.syma@UKACRL UUCP: grahamt%sussex.syma@ukc.uucp Phone: +44 273 678165 Fax: +44 273 685865