Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:13415 comp.sys.mac.hardware:12312 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!guelzow From: guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Andreas J. Guelzow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Personal Laserwriter LS slowness Message-ID: <1991Jun24.221326.12345@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 24 Jun 91 22:13:26 GMT References: <1991Jun20.224729.28255@eddie.mit.edu> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 34 In article <1991Jun20.224729.28255@eddie.mit.edu> rabbit@eddie.mit.edu (Warren J. Madden) writes: > 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 nice story about icecream etc. deleted > 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?!? You fail to mention how much memory and what kind of Macintosh you have. It would also be helpful to know whether you had background printing on or not: The main work when printing on an LS is done by the computer and only the bitmap is compressed and downloaded. The speed can therefore also be affected by any other programmes you may have running (e.g. disk express II working on a 100 meg disk, etc.) Anyways on a Mac Plus with 4 meg it seems to take Nisus up to 12 minutes to print a page including several truetype and ATM fonts and Expressionist pictures. Similar pages required about 4 minutes on an old Appletalk Laserwriter. -- Andreas J. Guelzow Department of Mathematics & Astronomy University of Manitoba