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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Help zapping a printer
Summary: how to reset a printer by software?
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Date: 21 Aug 90 19:45:31 GMT
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I have an Apple LaserWriter IIntx PostScript printer.  On occasion I mess up
and send it a straight ASCII text.  It is then completely hung.  The only way I
know how to restore its sanity is to turn it off and back on again, which is a
pain.  We can't find a power CLEAR command in the PostScript books.  Does
someone know how to do this?  Howcome the language doesn't seem to have a power
clear command that resets the interpreter?  The commands initgraphics and
grestoreall don't do the job.  Please help!  Thanks.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov