On 15 Mar 97 04:11pm, Matthew Montchalin wrote to Bill White:
 MM> Very good illustration!  I, too, am annoyed by this 
 MM> re-sequencing of stuff, over and over again, just to
 MM> do a multiple-print.
Your ONLY options are:
1.  Have multiple copies generated by the printer, so it re-uses
a page's data as many times as there are copies of the page to be
made, collating the copies yourself.
2.  Have multiple copies generated by WP, with data for each page
sent sequentially, repeatedly, so the printer does the collating.
In the case of laser printers, the printer must accumulate all of
the data for an entire page before printing the page (as opposed to
a dot matrix printer which gets the data for and prints one line at
a time).  It then dumps that data from memory before accumulating
the data for and printing the next page.  To be accumulated by the
printer, the data must, of course, be sent to it; and THAT'S what
can be time-consuming if a page contains a lot of graphics.  That
aspect of the process would be independent of WP keeping the data
for the print job (which it might be doing already) or having to
regenerate it for every copy.
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