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From: rabbit@eddie.mit.edu (Warren J. Madden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Personal Laserwriter LS slowness
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.224729.28255@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 22:47:29 GMT
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Greetings, netters!

	I recently purchased a Personal Laserwriter LS.  I finally had
the time to get it all set up and installed with my IIsi running 6.0.7.
I decided to give the thing a workout by printing out a game manual that
I had online in Microsoft Word.  My version of Word is 4.00C.  I set
the fractional widths option, and printed a page (the manual is mostly
two-column output, with no graphics, Times font).  The printer took
about 15 minutes to chew on the job, and then spit out a page that had
_very_ strange alignment between letters.  So I turned the frac. widths
option off, and printed that page again.  No problems.

	Fine.  So now I tell it to print the whole 40 page file.  This is
at 10 pm.  I figure it will take a couple of hours, so I go out for an
ice cream.  I come back at midnight, and it's printed five pages.  Hmm.
I decide to go to bed, sure that it will be done by morning.

	Page 18 appeared while I was taking my morning shower.  I went
off to work, very puzzled and slightly perturbed.

	Page 34 came out as I was listening to my messages after arriving
home from work at 7 pm.  In disgust, I went out for the evening.

	The job finally finished sometime during the following few hours.
I estimate it took 24 hours to print a 40 page, two column, Truetype
document.

	WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?  I didn't expect the printer to be
a speed demon, but this is ridiculous!  Please, somebody tell me what I'm
doing that is causing this to be such a dog.  I didn't think I needed a
big, expensive Postscript printer for my personal use, but now I'm not so
sure that I made the right move in buying the LS.


HELP!!!

Warren J. Madden
rabbit@eddie.mit.edu