louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald) (12/20/89)
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.... -- Louis McDonald Internet: louis@aerospace.aero.org The Aerospace Corp. America OnLine: Louis Mc 213-336-8914
gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman) (12/21/89)
The original posting was a bit confusing to me but I believe the question is how to get a file from the Apple LaserWriter driver which is suitable for printing color on a color PostScript printer which will be connected on another device besides the Mac. The answer is: get LaserWriter driver 6.0 which comes on Apple's Color Disk. This is available from Apple dealers and also includes 32 bit QuickDraw (which is not needed to take advantage of LW 6.0). Note that LaserWriter driver 6.0 does not come with System 6.0.x If you are using this driver you will see two radio buttons at the bottom of the print driver which lets you select color/grayscale or b/w output. Choose color/grayscale (the default I believe). Then use the usual Command-K/Command-F (don't forget to turn off Print Spooling first) combination to get a PostScript file. This file is the one you want to transfer to your other system and send to your color PostScript output device. Hope this helps, David Gelphman Adobe Systems Incorporated