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From: bskendig@bird.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: laser test page
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Date: 21 Apr 91 00:13:55 GMT
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In article <1991Apr20.233308.18034@agate.berkeley.edu> dburr@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) writes:
[a way to stop the LaserWriter from printing out test pages on startup]

That works if you care to go to all the trouble!  A much easier way is
to send the following program to the printer:

%!
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin
false setdostartpage
end

The %! as the first line tells the PostScript interpreter in the
printer to process the rest of the input as a program, not as text to
print.  The rest of it just resets the printer to not print test pages
any more.  I'm not sure if this lasts across power interruptions (I
think it does), but it works well to cut down on the paper wasted
during a printer war (when people keep reinitializing the printer back
and forth between two different versions of Laser Prep).

You can send the program with an application such as "SendPS", or any
one of several font downloaders that let you also download PostScript
programs, or from Unix.  Not that you can't just type this into
MacWrite and run it on the printer by printing it, because MacWrite is
smart enough to draw each letter before it sends it to the printer.

Good luck!

     << Brian >>

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