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From: mf@ircam.UUCP (Michel Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: How to change a printer's type?
Message-ID: <493@ircam.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 89 20:23:43 GMT
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Organization: Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique-Musique
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In order to make a LaserWriter invisible to the Macintosh drivers, I need
to change its NBP type to anything else than LaserWriter.

The "setprintername" description in Red Book mentions in a footnote that
the special characters `:' and `@' are used to create full NBP names.

Does this mean that:

(i)  saying	 (MyPrinter:OddType) setprintername
     would set both the name and the type?

(ii) would that command leave the zone field unchanged?

Thanks for any help,

Michael