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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: spooled LaserWriter problems
Message-ID: <232@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 3 Aug 90 18:33:12 GMT
References: <26357@usc.edu> <588@grumpy.sarnoff.com>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Organization: Skyline Press, Woodside CA
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In article <588@grumpy.sarnoff.com> puh@sarnoff.com (Patrick Hsieh) writes:
>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.

Look in the spool directory (/usr/spool/NeXT/printername, I think) and
look for the file ".options" that should be there.  If it's not there,
you can create one.  For details, type "man pscomm".

I think you can solve both problems with this file, potentially.  There
are flags that you can turn off for the banner page:

BANNERFIRST=0

There are any number of possibilities why the file won't print, but
assuming that the setup on the Sun is generally working okay, the
problem is likely to be with the file you send to it.  My guess is
that it is trying to reverse the pages, which can cause problems if
the PostScript isn't conforming.  To test this theory, change the
first line of the file so it contains only "%!", not the whole
"%!-PS-Adobe1.0" stuff.  That will prevent page reversal from taking
place.

If this turns out to be the problem, you can defeat page reversal in the
".options" file like this:

REVERSE=0

Give that a try.

Glenn

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