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From: amys@TheImprov.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Amy Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Showcase and using lpr to print
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.164611.18665@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 16:46:11 GMT
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In <1991Jun19.133136.8240@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> amys@TheImprov.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Amy Swanson) writes:

I appreciate all the replies, but I should have included in my original 
posting that I also tried the "saving as EPS" option and then sent that
file to the LaserWriter with lpr.  The printer interpreted the postscript
file as text and just spewed forth text instead of the graphics.



Amy


>Just started using Showcase yesterday and I wanted to print a document I
>just created.  I don't have the luxury of having a printer connected directly
>to my SGI (or any other SGI around) and we are using lpr for our printing
>(that's what happens when you have a heterogeneous hardware environment).
>Does anyone have any suggestions?  I tried this:

>     icut doc   (used 'icut' to get the Showcase doc)
>     tops doc | lpr

>It printed the doc, but the printer sees the background as "grey" instead
>of plain/white.  Any ideas?


>Thanks!
>Amy


>============
>Amy K. Swanson
>SGI Systems Administrator
>NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign

>amys@ncsa.uiuc.edu