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From: bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: laser test page
Message-ID: <1991May11.151053.4449@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 11 May 91 15:10:53 GMT
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In article <42570@netnews.upenn.edu> Edmund Davis writes:
>I want to print out extra start-up pages.  An office I do some work for
>uses the page count for accounting purposes.  Whenever they want it, they
>turn it off and back on again.  I think that this switching is hard
>on the machine. 
>Could someone post the postscript code that forces a laserwriter to
>print it's start-up page?

Here's a couple of solutions to try:

1. Use Apple's Font Downloader to reset the printer, which will cause a
   startup page to print.

2. Here's some postscript to print out the current pagecount:

	/Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont
	72 300 moveto
	(Pages: ) show
	statusdict begin
		pagecount 5 string cvs show
	end
	showpage
-- 
	Roger L. Long
	bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com