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From: zwicky@erg.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How do you make a printer show persistent parameters?
Keywords: Qume ScripTEN Laserwriter
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.213344.21935@erg.sri.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 21:33:44 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.065145.9470@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cckba@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Kent Adams) writes:
<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.

The Mac isn't trying to change EEPROM parameters; it's trying to make
persistent changes to the system dictionary. All of your options are
unpleasant; the least unpleasant is to set the ScripTEN's password to
0, which is what the Mac thinks it will be. (The others all involve
modifying the printer drivers on all the Macs.) The Mac is downloading
the Macintosh dictionaries to the printer, which takes a while; it
tries to do it persistently to save the time on future print jobs.

	Elizabeth Zwicky
	zwicky@erg.sri.com