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From: ack@wings.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: 7.0 - Printing Woes!
Summary: Problems printing in System 7.0
Keywords: any clues printing system 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May28.180659.3252@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 28 May 91 18:06:59 GMT
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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We've been having a variety of problems here that maybe someone can shed
some light on.

1) Macs running under both 7 and 6.0.x systems using printer drivers 7.0
   have reported that printing is much slower than it was before moving
   up to the 7.0 drivers. This is on an NTX. Someone did some looking and
   saw that the Prep is downloaded to the printer EVERY time a job is
   printed. Is this really true? Why else would this be much slower?

2) Users in a mixed system office report that printer driver 7.0 does NOT
   allow background printing under the 6.0.x versions. The buttons in the
   Chooser are grayed out. Why is this so? Is this intentional or is there
   some easy fix we are missing. We have been encouraging offices with mixed
   versions to upgrade to the 7.0 drivers. If background printing doesn't work
   for these people then this is a major problem. Will this be fixed in 6.0.8?

3) We have seen at least one 7.0 set-up hard drive (a quantum 105mb) which
   refused to print from MS Word 4.0 (with the 7.0 drivers to a 7.0 LW Plus)
   it claimed that the printer could not be opened and then crashed when the
   OK button was pressed. This is a printer that other 7.0 macs can print
   to with no problem. We tried her drive on a II and a Plus.(Both times
   as the boot volume, and this is the same II that, under 6.0.5 and 7.0
   drivers, prints just fine.)

If anyone can shed any light on the above, we'd be most grateful.

Thanks.

-A

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