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From: bjb@pyramid.com (Bruce Beare)
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Subject: Re: Broken promises or UBD? Printer Wars and 7.0.
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Date: 4 Apr 91 23:02:10 GMT
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In article <150840@pyramid.pyramid.com> bjb@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Bruce Beare) 
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> Subject: Broken promises or UBD? Printer Wars and 7.0.
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> After installing 7.0, I find that I'm experiencing laser wars. I
> thought that Apple had previously stated that future versions of laserprep
> wouldn't cause this. (Don't ask me where I heard this!).
> 
> Anyway, I'm running the 7.0 beta -- and the company is using the 5.2 prep
> file. I tried to use the old laserwriter driver with 7.0 -- no dice. The 
> file 'Laser Prep' doesn't seem to be in the 7.0 distribution -- I ass-u-me 
that
> it is now part of the driver file.
> 
> Does anyone know how to hot-wire this thing?
> 
> Bruce Beare
> bjb@pyramid

I've received several replys on this. Thanks to all.

Apparently the 'solution' to this is to have all of the non system-7 users
upgrade their laserwrite/laserprep files to the ones that came with the
stylewriter/truetype disks.

-Bruce