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From: ries@VENICE.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
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Subject: Re: Need help to set up printing from EXCEL
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Date: 9 Feb 90 00:54:26 GMT
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In article <9002081825.AA27459@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> jim@Corp.Sun.COM (James Mangin) writes:
->
->I have Microsoft EXCEL loaded on my 386i Workstation and
->am having major difficulties getting it to print to our local laserwriter.
->Does anyone have any past experiece with this?  Our IR group does not support
->third party software and therefore have not been much help.  The setup.pc 
->directory is correct and printer locations set, but when trying to print from
->EXCEL all that comes out of the printer is a blank page with: Error spooling 
->binary file.  Any help is appreciated.
->

  I'd take a wild [8-)] guess and say you are trying to send binary
  (possibly softfonts or a non-encapsulated binary) instead of 
  (ASCII) postscript.

  I don't know about EXCEL under DOS, but under WINDOWS you have to
  specify, via the control program, that you with to use the (a) postscript
  printer for a particular port.

  Once a particular printer type has been specified, it's up to EXCEL to
  know what to send to that port (printer).  In any case, I suggest
  checking out that the correct (postscript) printer is specified
  in either EXCEL (or CONTROL, if WINDOWS, or both). 

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Marc Ries
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