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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Initialization Page
Summary: How about just pulling the paper tray out until the LaserWriter
	 is warmed up?
Keywords: LaserWriter
Message-ID: <3160@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 14:20:36 GMT
References: <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2565@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <2565@ut-emx.UUCP>, jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley) writes:
> In article <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (A. Gregory Sorensen) writes:
> > 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.
>
.... 
> J. Chris Cooley

Another easier way to go about this is to just pull the paper tray out of the
printer just far enough to turn the paper out light on.  Then when the printer
finishes warming up (the green light stops flashing) just nudge the paper
tray back in.  This is a simple solution.  But maybe some people like playing
with postscript.

Michael Niehaus
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