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From: puh@sarnoff.com (Patrick Hsieh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: spooled LaserWriter problems
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Date: 2 Aug 90 19:12:55 GMT
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Hi!  I hope you guys can help me out.  Mine is the lone NeXT machine in my 
group, and none of the systems people have much experience with it.

I have the NeXT connected to our local Ethernet network and have it set up 
to print by spooling to one of our Suns.  It sort of works, in the sense 
that sometimes things print OK, and sometimes not.  In particular, I ran 
dvips (300 dpi, memory set to 900000) on the emacs manual, and brought it 
up in the Previewer.  It looked fine, so I printed the first page.  The 
Sun showed the job in the queue, and eventually I got the header page, but 
no printout.  Is there some other setting that needs to get fixed to print 
reliably to Apple LaserWriters?

Also, is there a way I can get rid of the job header page?  Putting a :sh: 
in the printcap file and niloading it doesn't seem to do it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!


Patrick Hsieh                                  puh@sarnoff.com
David Sarnoff Research Center

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