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From: gergely@dalcs.UUCP (Peter Gergely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printer Spooling w/Mac+
Message-ID: <2332@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 10:01:06 EST
Article-I.D.: dalcs.2332
Posted: Fri Jan  9 10:01:06 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Jan-87 23:53:02 EST
References: <251@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: gergely@dalcs.UUCP (Peter Gergely)
Organization: DREA, Dartmouth, NS Canada
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Keywords: slow printing spooling

In article <251@umbc3.UMD.EDU> chris@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Chris Schanzle) writes:
>I know that spooling software is usually included with hard drives, but
>they're still out of my league financially.  I need a spooler that can
>print graphics as well as text files.  There are only two that I know
>of that might fit the bill: MaxPrint (from MacMemory) and MacSpool
>(from Mainstay).

1.  MacSpool was a very nice program, when I bought it for system
3.1.1.  It crashes horribly with system 3.2/ finder 5.3.  It would
spool to Ram, and thus was Ram limited (about 10 best quality pages,
on a Mac+ with MS Word).  You also could not use the serial
communication port to communicate with another machine, while the
printer was on the printer port.  Mainstay has never notified of a fix
for the bug eventhough I was the first to notify them of it.  I too
would not deal with them any more.

2.  MaxPrint is a DA, and spools to the disk of your choice.  It isn't
as fast as MacSpool, but works superbly.  I don't know much more about
it except that it works great on a hard disk, and a friend of mine
swears by it.

3.  SuperSpool by Dataframe.  Another option but I know nothing of it.



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