The driver had to spool the entire job before sending. A full-page, 2540 DPI, color-separated film negative could be over 200 MB of data. The Macintosh of 1994 (with 8 MB of RAM) would often crash with a Type 2 error. The driver lacked proper error handling; a crash meant reloading the driver extension from floppy.
The Linotronic 530 printer driver served as the between a computer (typically a Macintosh running System 6 or 7) and the imagesetter. Its core jobs included: linotronic 530 printer driver