On 2003-09-29 22:53, "Mark Heeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Where exactly do the print files (after being spooled and in the Print
>> Queue) actually get stored ?
>> 
>> I am trying to work out some spool file sizes...
>> 
>> In OS9, I always used PICT files in MS word to produce photo pages as
>> JPEG's created files
>> that were 10x larger.  This obviously took 10x longer to print because
>> of all that extra data so
>> PICTs were the go.  I wanted to do the testing in OSX again but for
>> the life of me I can't find
>> those spool files !

As of 10.2, OS X stores spool files in: /private/var/spool/cups/

Before that we weren't using CUPS printing so I'm not sure where spools were
kept.

Ry