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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printer identification...
Message-ID: <109@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 05:16:43 GMT
References: <YZluIfu00Wo_05k1A=@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <YZluIfu00Wo_05k1A=@andrew.cmu.edu> jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson) writes:
<The question I have is how can I tell what type of printer is at the
<other end of a serial line?  To save myself  many "house-calls", I'd
<like to find a bit of PostScript code which prints revealing information
<back up the serial line to the spooling workstation.  This will save me
<from applying the speed-up procedure to printers for which it obviously
<won't work.  

%!
/in {72 mul} def
/Courier findfont 18 scalefont setfont
1 in 8 in moveto
statusdict /product get show
showpage

The above piece of code places the output on the printer itself.  It is
a start, though not exactly what you are looking for.
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