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From: ifberger@cnedcu51.bitnet (Pierre-Yves Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 too much for SE & Imagewriter?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.145127.187@cnedcu51.bitnet>
Date: 12 Jun 91 14:51:27 GMT
References: <16078.28527b0d@zeus.unomaha.edu>
Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
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In article <16078.28527b0d@zeus.unomaha.edu>, jsaker@zeus.unomaha.edu (Jamie Saker -- Vice President, UNO ACE) writes:
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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?

No, I have the same problems with the same setup except 4MB RAM !

I'm printing with 6.0.5 started on disk.

--
Pierre-Yves Berger
ifberger@cnedcu51.bitnet