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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How do you make a printer show persistent parameters?
Keywords: Qume ScripTEN Laserwriter
Message-ID: <1610@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 91 05:44:50 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.065145.9470@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
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Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <1991Apr11.065145.9470@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cckba@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Kent Adams) writes:
<Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
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<Subject: how do you print persistent parameters
<Keywords: QUME Scripten PostScript
<
<On campus we have a QUME ScripTEN PostScript laserprinter which for all
<intents and purposes is meant to emulate an Apple Laserwriter.
<When we print to it from a locally connected Macintosh
<it fails with 
<
<error: password incorrect;offending command: exitserver
<
<The QUME ScripTEN has a password set in EEROM statusdict
<and we believe that the above error message occurs because the
<Macintosh is trying to change a persistent parameter in the printer
<but the MAC does not know the password.

Don't do it.  The EEROM in these printers will only take so many changes
before it will bite the bullet.  If you do this every time you print something,
you will burn out the EEROM way too soon.

If this is only a one-time thing, then you are OK, but do keep in mind that
the EEROM will not last forever.
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