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From: xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Bug in Laserwriter 6.0?
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.153910.22579@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 90 15:39:10 GMT
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In article <70500020@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>I often run into a bug in the 6.05i print driver from apple.com.
>It produces a command "x y z setrgbcolor" at the beginning of my
>postscript file.  This causes my fonts to show up in a light shade of
>grey, especially on the first page.
>
>If I delete this command from the postscript file, my job prints
>normally.  This erroneous color-setting command shows up with many
>applications (Canvas, MS-Word), on our SE/030.  We can't even select
>colors on this SE/030, and the problem still occurs.  I just
>reinstalled the laserwriter icon, but this did not help.
>
>Is Apple aware of this bug in the driver?  Will it be fixed in the
>next release of the printing tools?
>
>
>Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
>1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
>ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies


Have you tried checking the Radio Button next to Print Black and White
instead of allowing the default button to remain on for Print Color?

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