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From: gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printing startup page on Laserwriters
Message-ID: <8054@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 90 17:37:12 GMT
References: <BGONDERM.90Nov6085513@dante.nmsu.edu>
Reply-To: gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman)
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Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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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
>PostScript code to the printer to generate it.  Note that power
>cycling the printer is not an ideal solution since we have the
>printers captured by a print spooler.  Any suggestions?

    Here is some code which should work on most printers:

serverdict begin   % this is where the startpage operator lives
userdict begin    % serverdict is readonly and startpage needs some
		% dictionary space to do its thing
startpage	% create the start page
showpage	% show the page
end end		% end userdict, end serverdict

I'm sure there are printers out there which this won't work on but
it should on most. 

Hope this helps,
David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated