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From: jsaker@zeus.unomaha.edu (Jamie Saker -- Vice President, UNO ACE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: System 7 too much for SE & Imagewriter?
Message-ID: <16078.28527b0d@zeus.unomaha.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 01:01:32 GMT
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Help! I've run into problems with a Mac SE (System 7) trying to print
a MSWord document and taking unusual waiting periods between printing
each line.

Setup: Mac SE, 2MBytes RAM, 40 MB HD, Imagewriter II via printer port,
       no AppleTalk running.
       Running MSWord 4.0 on a fresh System 7 (no extra apps running, etc.)

Problem: Tried to print a 3k, 1 page document of text in word to the 
	 Imagewriter and it chokes - taking 5-10 seconds of delay time
	 per line - on best quality mode. Turned to "faster" and it
	 still chokes, but not as bad.

I checked the finder - the machine shouldn't be having memory problems
since the finder is only taking up 997k and MSWord approx. 550k. 

This problem didn't exist under System 6.07, so I doubt it's a hardware-
related problem.

Is this normal performance for a 68000 under System 7? Or is this
one of those Microsoft things? :-)  Will upgrading this machine to
4MBytes help at all or is it just stuck with a slow processor?

Many hearty thanks in advance...

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