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From: macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Printing Postscript Files from a Mac on a Unix system
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.203901.2327@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 15 Jun 91 20:39:01 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.172702.9085@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In an article steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) rambles:

>Since the Laserwriter hasn't been initialized with a Macintosh, it dies
>on special macros in the Postscript file.  I believe these macros are
>defined in the included file, AppleDict, and the Laserwriter doesn't 
>have AppleDict installed in memory.

I'm not so sure this is the problem. I am under the impression that the
system 7 laserwriter driver no longer leaves the laser prep information
in the printer. In other words, it's sent with every print job.

As a result, printing to just and printer shouldn't be a problem since it
no longer has to have the Macintosh initialization.

I print postscript files to a Postscript clone printer on our unix system
at school.  Before system 7, I used to have a lot of problems. Macps did
a nice job, but the system 7 drivers seem to handle making generic
postscript files a LOT better. (This has been my experience anyway).

- Chris


 
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