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- NOTES ON 'PrintBuff' PRINTER BUFFER V. 1.10
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- This program can greatly reduce the amount of
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- time a printer driver hogs from the computer while
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- printing. It provides an area of memory where the
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- print file information can be stored. This allows
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- the user to perform other tasks while the printer
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- is still printing.
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- HOW TO USE
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- To load, double click on the '!PrintBuff'
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- application. This will load the PrintBuff module.
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- The PrintBuff icon will install itself on the
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- left hand side of the icon bar. This tells you
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- the printer buffer is installed. A quit function
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- is here to remove the printer buffer. The printer
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- buffer is set to on with 128K when loaded.
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- You can access the command line by pressing F12
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- to type in these commands.
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- Commands provided:
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- *Buffer <ON|OFF> - This turns the printer buffer
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- on or off.
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- *BufferSize [<size>] - without a parameter this
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- command tells you how many bytes are reserved for
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- the printer buffer. With one parameter, the value is
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- taken as the new buffer size in bytes. The default
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- setting is 131072 bytes space (equal to 128K).
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- N.B. PrintBuff only takes values in bytes.
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- To find a KiloByte value in bytes, you need to
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- multiply the KiloByte value by 1024.
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- In tests with this value a sprite file normally
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- needing 2 mins 20 secs of take over time to be
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- reduced to just 20 secs.
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- A sprite file that normally takes 1 min, was reduced
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- to just 5 secs!
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- N.B. - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE TYPE *BUFFER ON BEFORE
- PRINTING, OTHERWISE THE PRINTER BUFFER
- WILL NOT BE ACTIVE.