davidl@teklds.UUCP (David Levine) (12/05/85)
In article <8511202000.AA00724@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> CET1%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@UCL-CS.ARPA ("Cambridge Phoenix - CAM.PHX@C) writes: >We have an Apple LaserWriter which is alternately driven over the >RS232 port as an network printer (switch at "9600") and from a >Macintosh workstation (switch at "AppleTalk"). > >Having read Appendix D of the PostScript Language Reference Manual >I thought that one ought to change the "password" required by the >'exitserver' operator from its default of zero. Well, the snag is that >the Mac won't print anything on the LaserWriter if one does this, it >moans about getting PostScript errors. > >From this I deduce that the Mac must be using 'exitserver' itself, and >needs to know the password. Can anyone tell me how to tell the Mac what >the password it needs is? There doesn't seem to be much in the Apple >documentation that helps here. > >I suppose this behaviour of the Mac helps to explain why 'vmstatus' >at the start of a job shows about 65000 bytes used just after the LW >has been switched on, but about 108000 bytes after the Mac has been >at it? > > Chris Thompson > CET1%PHX.CAM.AC.UK@UCL-CS.ARPA Sorry about a) posting rather than replying to the originator and b) quoting the entire article, but a) there's no way I can reach an address like that from Usenet, and b) I found this article in newsgroup 'junk' and it's likely it never was seen by at least some of you. I once had a problem using a LaserWriter (normally used on a VAX) from a Macintosh. Any time I tried to print anything, from any application, it would give the message "PostScript error: the document is OK but can't be printed." Seeing this article leads me to believe that I was having the same problem as Chris. Does anyone out there have a fix for this problem? In my particular case, it's even worse: I don't even KNOW the LaserWriter's password! Thanks in the proverbial advance, David D. Levine (...decvax!tektronix!teklds!davidl) [UUCP] (teklds!davidl.tektronix@Udel-Relay) [ARPA] (experimental)