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From: nagel@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IW-II spool
Keywords: spool, Image Writer II
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Date: 11 Apr 89 17:27:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, wyl E. coyote )

In article <28778@apple.Apple.COM>, han@Apple (Byron Han, wyl E. coyote ) writes:
|In article <2543@puff.cs.wisc.edu> ahn@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Sung Ahn) writes:
|>Can anyone suggest a good printer spooler for the Image Writer II?
|
|SuperSpool from SuperMac Technologies is a background print spooler for
|directly attached ImageWriter I and ImageWriter II printers.

Note that SuperSpool, while good (and probably the *only* one) has
some interface problems.  For example, if you want to use the
clover-key method of not entering MultiFinder, SS will crash when you
attempt to print.  Someone said here recently that SuperMac has no
plans to change this aspect of the program.  Oh goody.  The docs say
that you *must use Set Startup*.  They probably determine whether you
are in MF by looking at the boot blocks or something disgusting like
that.  This doesn't make it unusable, but does cause some nonzero
amopunt of annoyance.  In addition, the Print Queue DA could use an
interface overhaul.  For example, you must currently delete each item
from the queue individually complete with an 'Are you sure?'  idiot
dialog for each one.  Oh for a delete all button...

Anyway, SuperSpool is good and I get use out of it.  But I wish I had
known some of these things before I bought it.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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