Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: survey: to spool or not
Keywords: mac,printer,spool
Message-ID: <4838@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 21:27:13 GMT
References: <476@grand.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 23

In article <476@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes:
>Print spooling is obviously a desirable thing.
>Yet, some people end up not using the spooler
>they bought for one reason or another.
> ...

I've been using LaserSpeed (from Think) for about a month. There doesn't
seem to be much choice in spoolers. The only other one I noticed was
SuperLaserSpool which was twice the price. I'm mostly satisfied with
LaserSpeed (i.e., it works as advertised), but have the following
problems:
1. You have to specify which disk you want to spool to. That's fine,
   except that it forgets the disk you specified when you reboot.
2. You have to manually prep the printer through LaserSpeed every time
   you turn the printer on. I have no idea why this is necessary and
   it's a frustrating inconvenience.
3. It has the ugliest user interface I've ever seen on a Mac.
The documentation is very sketchy.

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank