As of April, 1990, Omnis could not able to produce output quickly enough while
generating a report to keep the printer from timing out. (This happens with
both the AppleTalk ImageWriter and the LaserWriter.) This is similar to what
we've seen with 4th Dimension.
The workaround is to have Omnis generate a page of output and then send the
entire page to the printer. To do this, either put the report output
into a list or spool it to disk. With a LaserWriter, you have an
additional option of using background printing under MultiFinder. The
page-at-a-time approach is what we've used with our 4th Dimension database.
Although we did not get into specifics, the Omnis people did not tie this
problem to a problem with the AppleTalk ImageWriter driver. Instead, it seems
to be a reality of printing reports that take a lot of processing when printing
to any network-based printer.