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From: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 Slowness: Printing
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.113222.3378@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au>
Date: 20 Jun 91 01:32:21 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.175431.27097@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: University of Queensland
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In article <1991Jun19.175431.27097@agate.berkeley.edu>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
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> However, the most annoying thing is the slowness in printing.
> I sent two similar simple text documents to our laserprinter.
> One from my Mac II running 6.0.4 took 20 seconds to begin
> printing. One from our IIci running system 7 took 45 seconds
> to begin printing. Assuming that the printer processing time
> is roughly constant, that means that system 7 is taking 25
> seconds longer to get the file off. Both are printing in the
> background. Presumably the difference would have been even
> greater with system 7 on the II and system 6.0.4 on the IIci.
>

Compare the sizes of the spool files created.  Sys 7 is MASSIVE.  I 
recently did a test.  A three (3) line file with three fonts: NewYork, 
Times, & New Century (Word 4.00b).  The postscript file generated was 603K 

Ignoring other effects, this will take longer to send, particularly over 
LocalTalk

What's the story Apple.

-- 
David E. Bellamy        Email: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Dept. Commerce, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AUSTRALIA