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From: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Gratuitous incompatibility with NeXT postscript printer?
Message-ID: <2669@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 19:07:37 GMT
References: <509@gonzo.UUCP>
Reply-To: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <509@gonzo.UUCP> sandra@gonzo.UUCP (Sandra Burch) writes:
]I tried sending a postscript file from a Sun to a NeXT machine on the
]network using the regular BSD lpr system.  It queued just fine, but
]didn't print.  

I thought the NeXT printer is just a dumb raster laser printer.  The
PS intepretation is done by the Display PostScript on the host computer.
Will the problem caused by your lpr set up?  If the printer is dumb,
something has to be done before the job is sent to the printer.

Just an uneducated guess :-)

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