rob@panda.UUCP (Robert S. Wood) (09/03/88)
Request for help in using MacIntosh Laser printers 1. Problem #1: We are using Laser+ and Laser NT printers and have had several problems recently with the printouts looking different than the screen displays. It is obvious with several kinds of graphics but the specific cases I remember are instances where a line drawn across the screen prints only 3/4 of the way expected on the output. We have tried putting the line in bold to make it longer and changing the font of the line but nothing really succeeds. In another case, a user had a complicated drawing. She was using several small circles (MacDraw - version 1.9.5) which she created by duplicating and dragging them around the screen. On the screen they were the same size (verified by using the show size). However, they printed out in a variety of sizes (and a variety of skewed shapes). I believe we are using the proper versions of the software, the system and the finder. Has anyone else experienced this and do you have a solution. 2. Problem #2: We have several users with Pagemaker. Version 3 is too large to fit on a floppy and while the users have hard disks for their systems, the laser printers in some cases have floppy based systems as their drivers. I spoke to Aldus and got the directions for creating a postscript file and using a postscript downloader to send it to the printer. I am using SendPS 1.21. The aldus support people said this would produce an exact copy of the file and that it would be - if anything - faster to print. It appears to produce a reasonable copy of a text file but the size of objects in a draw file is significantly distorted. And for all kinds of files, the print time is several times longer than printing directly. Again, any experience and any suggestions? Please mail comments to rob@genrad.com (decvax!genrad!rob). Thanks.