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- From: daved@ruccs.rutgers.edu (Dave Douglass)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: INCREDIBLY SLOOOOOOOW PRINTING IN WINDOWS 3.1
- Message-ID: <Jan.5.12.25.50.1993.10520@ruccs.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:25:50 GMT
- References: <19230@mindlink.bc.ca> <1icbvqINNf6b@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx) writes:
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- >From article <19230@mindlink.bc.ca>, by Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb):
- >> I have de-selected Print Manager, and am using the so-called fast direct
- >> printing to port. As I read the manual and help files, this should speed up
- >> printing, but no such luck.
-
- >Actually, one of the authors in the January PC WORLD or PC COMPUTING
- >magazine tested the "direct printing to port" and reported it to be
- >slower, in most cases. You might want to read this issue as it has
- >some tips on speeding up printing. I can't remember which of the
- >two magazines it was in, but I know it was the January issue.
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- PC/COMPUTING. Apparently, checking "direct printing to port" gives your
- print job a SMALLER slice of CPU time than it gets by going through the DOS
- interface. So check this box only if you don't want printing to slow down
- whatever other Windows or background applications you may be running.
-
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- Dave Douglass Manager Computer Services Department of Psychology/RUCCS
- Busch Campus Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08855
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