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From: tchi@sal-sun60.usc.edu (Tony Chi)
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Subject: QMS PS-410
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Date: 5 Feb 91 04:11:05 GMT
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I just recently bought a QMS PS-410 printer and I'd like to recommend it to everyone looking for a low-cost postscript printer.  I do have 2 minor problems which I've been able to get around but if anyone has a solution, I'd like to know!

1) I would get postscript errors in PageMaker 4.0, usually when the printer is downloading fonts.  It's always a offending postscript command error.  The printer would get stuck on-line and I'd have to turn the printer off then on to reset it.  It resets within 5 seconds so it's not a big deal and almost always it would print the document when I resend it.

2) I can't get a spooler to work on it.  I tried SuperLaserSpool 2.0 and TOPSpool 3.0 and both generates errors.  I have a 4MB Mac Plus (I know... but I needed a postscript printer more) so I'm running MultiFinder 6.1b9 with System 6.0.5 and using it's background printing and Print Monitor.  It works fine but I have to run MultiFinder and I think I'm pushing things on a Plus.

I've spoken to QMS tech support and the only thing the guy could come up with is to buy LocalTalk cables.  Up to that point I was using my old ImageWriter cable.  He mentioned something about termination on the AppleTalk lines so I went off and got two $30 PhoneNet connectors.  Guess what?  Same problems.  Oh well... I'm going to connect another Mac to the printer so I would have to buy the cables eventually.

So here's the point... if anyone recognized any of these problems and has a solution, please let me know at tchi@usc.edu on Internet.  Thanks for reading such a verbose message.

Tony Chi
tchi@usc.edu

P.S.  Last time I called Aldus tech support about a PageMaker postscript problem, the tech guy at Aldus put me on hold for 10 minutes and came back asking me if the printer was plugged in.  I hope the guy was a rookie...