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From: giaccone@ur-tut (Tony Giaccone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: New LaserWriter II SC
Message-ID: <1589@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 19:08:29 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
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Keywords: Variable Print Times


Ok Folks, we've been evaluating the new IISC laserwriter, and found some
things that seem to be real problems. The first problem ocurrs when printing
a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The time it takes to print this spread sheet
seems to vary from a low of 2.5 minutes to a high of over 35. Can anyone
suggest any reason why there should be the amount of variation in the 
printing of the same document. The spread sheet is one page, printed
landscape mode, uses only the Times font. 

The second problem is with a Microsoft Word (3.0)  document. This document
has two columns, is in Times, with screen dumps included with 1/4 inch column
spacing, and 1/2 inch margins all around. When printed on the SC it seems to
expand the margins so that the right column is pushed off the edge of the
page. The inter-columnar (1/4 inch ) is enlarged to greater than 1/4 inch,
and no amount of spacing adjustment seems to solve the problem. Not even
setting the columnar spacing to negative values (ie -0.25 inches gives more
than +0.5 inch spacing between columns). Switching measurments to picas
instead of inches gives entirely different, but still incorrect, results.

Has anyone else out there used the SC, have you noticed these or any other 
problems with the printer? What's going on here. Would someone from Apple
care to comment?


					Tony Giaccone