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From: louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Network Color Postscript Printer
Keywords: color postscript, driver, ethernet
Message-ID: <63797@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 19 Dec 89 16:42:45 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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A department in our company is looking into purchasing a color
PostScript printer. They plan on putting it on the ethernet side
of our network (this way many workstations and mainframes can use
it). My question is:   

	For the Macintoshes (IIs) to use it, we will need a 
	color PostScript driver (?) for that machine. Using the
	command-F key for the standard laserwriter when dumping
	a color screen will now generate color postscript since
	the laserwriter we have only generates black and white (statement).

	Are there any generic "drivers" that can create color PostScript,
	without having to talk to the color PostScript printer directly?
	The reason for this question is that we are not configured to
	print to printers on the ethernet side of the network (at least
	not yet). The only solution I can come up with in the interim is
	to generate color PostScript using command-F, but the driver 
	selected in the choose would need to point to a color PostScript
	device.


Hopefully you can decipher this....


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