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From: jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Initialization Page
Summary: Here's how
Keywords: LaserWriter
Message-ID: <2565@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 20:33:08 GMT
References: <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 57
Posted: Thu May 19 15:33:08 1988

In article <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (A. Gregory Sorensen) writes:
> OK, I know this must be common knowledge, but...
> 
> I have heard there is a way to keep the LaserWriter (and LW Plus?) from
> printing out its initialization page when you first turn it on.
> I heard this tip was given in Macworld June 87. (Which I don't have access
> to.)  Does anyone know how to do this?  Frequent off/on cycles (e.g. daily)
> are using up ink and paper I'd like to save.

Your sources were correct.  The June 1987 issue of MacWorld details the
way to do it.  Because things were brain damaged back then, they tell you
to hook MacTerminal to the LW and type the postscript code directly into
the device.  That may be well for some, but with the advent of postscript
downloaders, this hassle is rendered obsolete.

My favorite is "SendPS 1.21" by Adobe (available on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
in the info-mac directory).  There's also "Postscript Tool" by Helicon
Designs, but it's not as good for downloading PS code--you have to type
the CTRL-D yourself after it ships the code to the LW.

Below are postscript code hacks I did (which were approved by our PS
person here).  Save each of these into text files and ship them to the
laserwriter using a PS downloader.  Don't "Print" from a word processor
unless you change the font to PS Escape (if you have it and have read
its documentation).

There's no immediate effect, but the next time you turn the LW on,
it won't be wasting that extra sheet and bit of toner.  The
"startuppage on" file is included in case someone is collecting those
sheets for usage records (or if you want to see the page every now
and then).

------------beginning of "startuppage on" --------------
%!PS-Adobe-1.0
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin true setdostartpage end
----------------------end of file-------------------------


------------beginning of "startuppage off" --------------
%!PS-Adobe-1.0
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
statusdict begin false setdostartpage end
----------------------end of file-------------------------

> thanks,
You're welcome.
 
> Greg Sorensen


J. Chris Cooley
Univ. of Texas Comp. Center
Austin, TX  78712
512/471-3241 x229

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