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From: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa)
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Subject: Re: Capturing Postscript output from the LaserWriter Driver
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Date: 5 Mar 91 00:43:47 GMT
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In article <7384@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> brucec@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Bruce Cheney) writes:
|A related question is how to capture Postscript when you
|do not have a laserwriter hooked up to your Appletalk port.
|I have an Imagewriter on my desk, but on another machine
|(non-Mac) to which I can serially communicate there is a
|PostScript printer. I would like to capture postscript 
|output, send it over to that other system, and execute a
|"transparent" print to the laserprinter. 

If this is not now in FAQ, it should be. 

You do not need a LaserWriter to print PostScript to disk. You merely 
need the LaserWriter driver and LaserWriter Prep. Use Chooser to 
select the LaserWriter driver, and Page Setup... to alert the app
that the printer has changed, and then command-F or command-K as
usual. Remember the remote LaserWriter (or Lino or ...) must have
the save prep loaded, or else you will have to reset it (and use
your command-K prepared file).