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From: NMKATZ@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Nicholas M. Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printer Woes
Message-ID: <8397@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 19 May 89 04:39:32 GMT
References: <642@gt-eedsp.UUCP> <2410@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <2410@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:

>In article <642@gt-eedsp.UUCP>, flur@gt-eedsp.UUCP (Peter W. Flur) writes:
>>
>> I have had nothing but heartaches as far as printing goes in release 0.9.
>
>Me, too.  Mostly I have found that I must restart npd and lpd every time I
>want to print.  I can print mutiple jobs consecutively, but, if I leave the
>printer idle for a while, I can't print anything again until I restart npd
>and lpd.
>
>I have had so many bugs with the printer driver and the printer application
>under 0.9 that I almost wish I could return to 0.8.

   I have also had trouble printing in 0.9, and remembered reading somewhere
that in 0.9 being low on toner caused no printing (instead of the "low toner"
warnings I had been seeing i under 0.8). So I opened the printer, took out the
toner cartridge and shook it around; whin I put it back and closed up  the prin
ter, it started to print, and for the first time the "Printer" application actu
ally launched, instead of just turning white for a while and then barfing.
   It's a pretty clumsy workaround! Anyone else have suggestions?

On another topic, has anyone succeeded in printing mac-generated postscript stu
ff to print on the neXt printer under 0.9. Steve Dorner(dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.
edu) had posted a sed script that cleaned up the apple laserprep file to the sa
tifaction of 0.8, but 0.9 is unwilling to accept his cleanup. Are you there, st
eve? Thanks in advance for any help, Nick Katz nmkatz@pucc