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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Test Page on Power On / Off
Message-ID: <297@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 16 Oct 90 17:12:27 GMT
References: <2357@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1990Oct16.074124.1616@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
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In article <1990Oct16.074124.1616@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> schwartz@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight Schwartz) writes:
>(Jason C Edmeades) writes:
>>Sorry if this is a question that is frequently put up, but could anyone please
>>mail me a copy of the postscript file to switch the test page printing off
>>when an Apple II Laserwriter is turned on. 
>
>	If such a file exists, and isn't too long, could one of its posessors
>please post it?

The following code works on many printers, but since it is a
device-specific language extension, it's not guaranteed to work on all
of them.  It is, however, the only way to turn off the startup page and
will probably do the trick on your printer:

%!
serverdict begin 0 exitserver	% where 0 is your password
statusdict begin
    false setdostartpage
end

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