Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!dalcs!gergely From: gergely@dalcs.UUCP (Peter J Gergely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: WANTED: Imagewriter spooling/background printing Keywords: wanted, Imagewriter, background printing, spooling Message-ID: <2973@dalcs.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 88 11:46:57 GMT References: <4438@saturn.ucsc.edu> <336@intelisc.UUCP> Reply-To: gergely@dalcs.UUCP (Peter J Gergely) Organization: DREA, Dartmouth, NS Canada Lines: 34 I received SuperSpool 5.0 from Supermac Software just a few weeks ago. It works superbly under the Multifinder environment. Supermac has changed the program into an INIT, which gets loaded at startup time. Eventhough I am running the 'famous' System 6.0, I have had no problems with SuperSpool 5.0. The only thing is that you must startup your Mac with either the Finder or Multifinder, no Command-Option Double Click on the Multifinder from the finder. The reason for this is that Superspool behaves as an application under Multifinder, and allocates memory when it is printing (or despooling as they call it), and deallocates it when it is done. Overall, it behaves great with a very good interface via the DA (now called Print Queue again). With the DA, you can deinstall Superspool temporarily for those programs that access the Imagewriter directly without following Apple standards, and reinstall again when you want. By definition of the INIT, Superspool is there available at all times after startup, unless you deinstall it or remove the INIT from the system folder. SuperSpool 5.0 runs with Suitcase, and behaves properly with Word 3.0.2, and many others. Amazingly enough, it FontDisplay 5.4 printed out my large catalogue without error via SuperSpool. My congratulations to Supermac on a job well done. Upgrade information from old copies of SuperSpool may be obtained by contacting SuperMac Software at 295 North Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 (Phone: (415) 964-8884). -- 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@DIAL|DREA-Griffin UUCP: gergely@dalcs.UUCP CSNET: gergely%cs.dal.cdn@ubc.csnet GENIE: GERGELY