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From: duanem@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM (Duane Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Naming LaserWriters
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Date: 31 Oct 90 17:41:14 GMT
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Reply-To: duanem@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM (Duane Mitchell)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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Under the subject of naming LaserWriters, our LaserWriter has picked up the
nasty habit of renaming itself every couple of days.  We are using LaserServe
spooling software to spool PageMaker and other files.  Occasionally we get
a screen message that the printer has misfed, or that it needs restarting, and
then when we restart it we get the message LaserWriter not found.

Going to the chooser shows that there is a new LaserWriter, in our case called
LaserWriterPlus1.  Once there was still the original LaserWriterPlus name also
in the chooser, but you had to pick the new one to print.  Now, every time the 
thing happens the name toggles between LaserWriterPlus and LaserWriterPlus1.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  I suspect it is either the spooler or the
LaserWriter itself.

If you have any solutions, please e-mail me.   Thanks.

Duane Mitchell  duanem@tekfdi.FDI.TEK.COM  Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton, OR