Robert A. Rosenberg's Profile

I agree with others that the Printing in MacOS X sucks. It is SLOW. Also, it does not support some VERY useful MacOS 9 (and prior versions) features. The Print Window does not offer any scheduling features such as the "Spool as HOLD/NORMAL/URGENT" where you can control if the Printout is not available for Printing (HOLD) and where it will be queued in relation to other jobs (NORMAL - After all other jobs already on the Queue and URGENT - Ahead of the first NORMAL job while after all other URGENT jobs). This reflects the lack of Scheduling Support in Print Center (even though PC supports HOLD, you must activate it manually by selecting a Job in PC and clicking HOLD - You can not add the Job already HELD). Then there is the lack of tracking in PC - No Display of Number of Pages or Number of copies for spooled jobs (something that MacOS 9 Print Monitor displays) and no status of a job being printed except to acknowledge that it is being printed (ie: No "Now Printing Page X of Y" like in MacOS 9 Print Monitor). It is my impression that MacOS X SERVER's Print Server supports all of these MacOS 9 features so Apple is willing to deliver this support if you plunk down $500 to buy Server while saying that those who pay only for MacOS X "Lite"/"Client" have no need for these "Fancy" (and previously supported) features. I hope that like with "Labels" that Jobs will finally be willing to deliver these other MacOS 9 features in the MacOS 10.3.0 version "for the rest of us" (not just the Server Crowd).