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From: davidl@teklds.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Apple LaserWriter query
Message-ID: <1346@teklds.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 12:32:18 EST
Article-I.D.: teklds.1346
Posted: Thu Dec  5 12:32:18 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 05:10:31 EST
References: <8511202000.AA00724@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: davidl@teklds.UUCP (David Levine)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <8511202000.AA00724@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> CET1%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@UCL-CS.ARPA ("Cambridge Phoenix - CAM.PHX@C) writes:
>We have an Apple LaserWriter which is alternately driven over the
>RS232 port as an network printer (switch at "9600") and from a
>Macintosh workstation (switch at "AppleTalk").
> 
>Having read Appendix D of the PostScript Language Reference Manual
>I thought that one ought to change the "password" required by the
>'exitserver' operator from its default of zero. Well, the snag is that
>the Mac won't print anything on the LaserWriter if one does this, it
>moans about getting PostScript errors.
> 
>From this I deduce that the Mac must be using 'exitserver' itself, and
>needs to know the password. Can anyone tell me how to tell the Mac what
>the password it needs is? There doesn't seem to be much in the Apple
>documentation that helps here.
> 
>I suppose this behaviour of the Mac helps to explain why 'vmstatus'
>at the start of a job shows about 65000 bytes used just after the LW
>has been switched on, but about 108000 bytes after the Mac has been
>at it?
> 
>        Chris Thompson
>        CET1%PHX.CAM.AC.UK@UCL-CS.ARPA

Sorry about a) posting rather than replying to the originator and b) quoting
the entire article, but a) there's no way I can reach an address like that from
Usenet, and b) I found this article in newsgroup 'junk' and it's likely it
never was seen by at least some of you.

I once had a problem using a LaserWriter (normally used on a VAX) from a
Macintosh.  Any time I tried to print anything, from any application, 
it would give the message "PostScript error: the document is OK but can't be 
printed."  

Seeing this article leads me to believe that I was having the same problem as
Chris.  Does anyone out there have a fix for this problem?  In my particular 
case, it's even worse: I don't even KNOW the LaserWriter's password!

Thanks in the proverbial advance,

David D. Levine (...decvax!tektronix!teklds!davidl)  [UUCP]
                (teklds!davidl.tektronix@Udel-Relay) [ARPA] (experimental)