Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!dalcs!gergely 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 Lines: 30 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. -- Peter J. Gergely (DREA, P.O. Box 1012, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3Z7 Canada) ARPANET: gergely@DREA-XX.ARPA (preferred) or Peter@DREA-GRIFFIN.ARPA DIALNET: Peter@GRIFFIN.DREA.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM CSNET: gergely%cs.dal.cdn@ubc.csnet UUCP: gergely@dalcs.UUCP