Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!oresoft!daveb
From: daveb@oresoft.uu.net (David Barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Printing bitmaps on an ImageStation
Keywords: imPRESS rasterfiles
Message-ID: <531@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 14 Dec 88 16:50:27 GMT
Reply-To: daveb@oresoft.UUCP (David Barnes)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland OR
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Can anyone suggest a method for printing bit maps on an Imagen ImageStation
printer?  The bitmaps in question are Sun screendump raster files.  I can
convert them to imPRESS using Imagen's imScreen filter or the public-domain
rastoimp program; both produce correctly-formatted imPRESS files.

The problem is that the printer configuration requires an end-of-file
character to be defined, in the range 0..255.  Unfortunately, the bitmaps
I'm printing can contain ANY value in this range, including the EOF marker.
When the printer sees the EOF character in the bitmap, it issues an "unexpected
end-of-file" error and produces incomplete or garbled output.

If, as the Imagen support rep suggested, I modify imScreen to eliminate
or substitute something else for the EOF character within the bitmap,
the result is garbled output.  THERE MUST BE A WAY to print these bitmaps
on my Imagen (mustn't there?).

[ Until this problem cropped up I've been happy with my Imagen, but I should
note that a local office was able to print a bitmap for me with no problem
on their PostScript printer.  Help me out, imPRESS hackers! ]

David Barnes
Oregon Software
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