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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: LaserWriter 6.0 & 32-Bit QD
Summary: Anybody get it to work?
Message-ID: <404@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 18 May 89 22:48:05 GMT
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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For those of you who have gotten your hands on the new LaserWriter 6.0
and 32-Bit QuickDraw: have you gotten it to work?

I am running a IIx with lots of memory and the Apple color monitor,
only 6.0.3, the new LaserPrep and LaserWriter, 32-bit QuickDraw, the
new Monitors, and the new General in the Blessed Folder, am talking to
a PhoneNET-ed LaserWriter Plus (with a Kinetics FastPath 4 listening
in).

What happens is usually nothing when there are color bit maps in
whatever I am printing.  For a while I was getting ``Error:
limitcheck; OffendingCommand: framedevice'', but powercycling the
printer made that go away.  Usually it is happy just sitting there
forever: an hour in one case, trying to print one of Apple's own
samples using Apple's own PICTViewer.  Even PICT Detective--which I
know knows about 32-Bit QD--just sits there claiming to be processing.
My boss has been having better luck with a Macintosh II and a big
color Radius talking to a NTX-what-ever-it-is, he gets output, but
what used to be 5 minutes is now 25 minutes, and he says the images
are the wrong size.

Anybody know how to get this new-and-improved software to *act*
new-and-improved?

Kent Borg
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