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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printing startup page on Laserwriters
Summary: try quit
Message-ID: <1681@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 90 00:57:05 GMT
References: <BGONDERM.90Nov6085513@dante.nmsu.edu>
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In article <BGONDERM.90Nov6085513@dante.nmsu.edu>, bgonderm@nmsu.edu (Bryan Gondermger) writes:
> Does anyone know how to get Apple LaserWriters (plus, NT, NTX) to
> print the startup page on demand?  What we'd like to do is send some
Well, you could restart the printer.  I think that quit might do it.
There is however, an entry in one of the builtin dictionaries
I don't remember which one.  Try this:
in interactive mode, using a terminal program, type in
executive <cr>
you should be given a prompt

PS>
turn on you ascii capture, and do
/serverdict load {== ==} forall
/statusdict load {== ==} forall
/$printerdict load {== ==} forall
/systemdict load {== ==} forall

Look through the resulting captured text.  You are looking for a routine
titled startpage or something similar.  You can execute that routine and
get a startup page.
cheers
Woody