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From: goussard@sipi.usc.edu (Yves Goussard)
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Subject: DeskWriter and Background printing (Info needed)
Summary: (Info needed) Hardware and software solutions for getting
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Date: 18 Mar 91 19:53:51 GMT
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I recently got the Mac Classic / HP DeskWriter I ordered three months
ago. They work fine, but the printer is VERY slow and I started
looking into background printing options. Hardware solutions seemed
preferable to me as they survive system evolution better. Naively, I
believed that connecting the printer to the Mac with AppleTalk would
solve the problem, but after trying this solution out, I realized that
the "Background Printing" option is not included in the "DeskWriter
With AppleTalk" driver. Does anybody know whether HP has any intention
of including this feature into the driver in the near future? If not,
is there any shareware type of spooler that works reasonably well and
that I could get not too painfully?

Thanks in advance for any hint. Please mail your answers. I will
summarize and/or post them.

Yves Goussard
Goussard@sipi.usc.edu