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From: len@rufus.math.nwu.edu (Len Evens)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Legal Size Printing on Apple LaserWriter
Keywords: Laser, TeX, dvi2ps
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Date: 30 Nov 89 13:18:12 GMT
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	We have some Apple Laser Writers (both I and II) connected
to Suns running Transcript software.   We use TeX and dvi2ps to
print documents.   I have tried without success printing documents
longer than 11 inches by setting the page size longer in the TeX
source file, using dvi2ps, and feeding a 14 inch page through the
manual feed tray.   I have just tried this with the Laser Writer I
and a Sun 3/160 running one of the earlier versions of Transcript
so far.   There are a couple of things I don't understand.  First,
dvi2ps seems to work, and something may be fed to the printer,
but nothing is actually printed.  (This sometimes happens with other
TeX documents for reasons we don't understand.)   Secondly, I thought
that when you feed paper manually, the feed from the paper
tray is disabled, but this does not seem to be the case for our
printer when using  say `lpr <document>'; both pages are fed to
the printing engine.  Presumably, I can get around this by removing
the paper tray, but I would like to know if that particular printer
is behaving normally.

	Any information question would be appreciated.  

Leonard Evens                      len@math.nwu.edu
Department of Mathematics 
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
312-491-5537