RE: [WinMac] Re: desktop spooler

Harrison, Stacey(harrisos[at]bsci.com)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:16:23 -0500

Just out of curiosity, how'd you come up with those numbers (Minimum at
> 175 and Preferred at 256)?
>
Thanks -
  
Stacey

> ----------
> From: Kurt Witowski[SMTP:r5213c@email.sps.mot.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 9:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] Re: desktop spooler
>
> Alex Dearden wrote:
>
> "get rid of Desktop printing as soon as you can, it causes all sorts of
> errors."
>
> I've been following this list for some time now and the above seems to be
> popular opinion, but I have to say that with the exception of LaserWriter
> 8.4
> (68K Runtime issue), out of the thousands of Macs that I've dealt with
> over
> the years I simply have not run into "all sorts of errors" with Desktop
> Printing. My first suggestion for the "...problems may soon occur."
> message
> would be to alocate more memory to the Desktop PrintMonitor (Hard Drive >
> System Folder > Extensions > Desktop PrintMonitor). Suggested = 175,
> Minimum
> is set to 152, and Preferred is set to 164 (don't ask me why). Try Minimum
> at
> 175 and Preferred at 256. Of the few times I've had issues with Desktop
> Printing (except LaserWriter 8.4) this has corrected it.
>
> Regards,
> Kurt Witowski
>
> > >First question - just upgraded my PowerMac 7500/100 to OS 8.5 and am
> using a
> > >HP5M Color LaserJet for printing over a network. When printing a large
> (but
> > >not huge) file from Freehand 8.0, I keep getting the following error,
> "The
> > >application Desktop Printer/Spooler has crashed (unknown trap type
> exception
> > >(Debugger/DegugStr)). It may still appear ok, but problems may soon
> occur."
> > >When I take the file to a coworkers computer it prints fine (though
> takes
> > >some time to process). Any ideas on what may be wrong on my end????
> >
> > get rid of Desktop printing as soon as you can, it causes all sorts of
> > errors. Disable the 2 EXTENSIONS that have the word desktop in them.
> > Reboot, redo the setup in the chooser and try again. It should work fine
> > this time.
> >
> > Alex Dearden
> > pata@doglover.com
>
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