[stomachmonkey]

Define print text poorly, are we referring to quality or speed?

Here's how GA's used to f things up.

Graphic Artist is putting together a flyer. Doing layout in Quark. They have 20 or so images to import and copy to place.

Quark lets you resize, flip, rotate, crop, recolor etc so artists with bad habits tend not to use OPI (proxy images). They send the full res image to the printer every time they print the layout. It gets compounded by all the "Stuff" they have done to placed images, the printer needs to do all that math.

The proper way to do it is using low res proxies until you are satisfied with the layout. Then you go back to the original hi res and you resize, recolor, rotate, flip it in Photochop. Then bring it back into your page layout program.

Most if not all artists are too lazy to do that.

Fonts make things worse. In the days before ATM you needed to manage fonts manually. That meant the good old Font Mover DA. Again out of laziness an artist would just dump fonts into the system to load at startup. After a while you ended up with hundreds if not thousands of open fonts.

That was a massive system hog.

When an app launches it reads the list of available fonts. It's fairly obvious that the more open/available fonts the longer this takes, the app boots slower and it's performance gets degraded since it needs to keep that font list refreshed.

The artist used to make problems for the admins on Macs. Everyone loves fancy fonts and since neither the admin or the artist had any brains the artist would give their admin buddies 500 gajilion fonts for their little SE and the poor thing would choke.

Most printers came with a set of fonts on board. If the font was resident on the printer then it was not downloaded by the computer. But since Artists back then were font happy and used 20 different fonts for a 15 word sentence you ended up downloading fonts to the printer.