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Subject: Slow high-resolution printing even with RamDisk
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 05:05:50 EST
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From: Greensid%PPL@LLL-MFE.ARPA

Can someone please explain why printing with the Imagewriter in high
resolution mode is so slow?  Even when the System, Finder, MacWrite, and
Imagewriter documents are all in RamDisk, the printer spends seconds at
the ends of pages or at the end of some paragraphs before continuing
with its line by line scan.  What is it doing that takes so much time?
As one irritating example, I was printing out a three page document
that had several empty lines at the end (some carriage returns to take
me to the next page).  In high resolution mode, the Imagewriter was
taking over five seconds to print those blank lines.  This continues to
be one of the serious weak spots in using the Macintosh for everyday
correspondence:  it takes much too long to print out a high quality page.