sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (A. Gregory Sorensen) (05/19/88)
OK, I know this must be common knowledge, but... I have heard there is a way to keep the LaserWriter (and LW Plus?) from printing out its initialization page when you first turn it on. I heard this tip was given in Macworld June 87. (Which I don't have access to.) Does anyone know how to do this? Frequent off/on cycles (e.g. daily) are using up ink and paper I'd like to save. thanks, Greg Sorensen
gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (05/19/88)
Pull out the paper tray part way. Then the init. page will not print.
Push it back in when you are ready to really print.
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Columbus, OH 43210 70715,1324 CompuServejcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley) (05/19/88)
In article <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (A. Gregory Sorensen) writes: > OK, I know this must be common knowledge, but... > > I have heard there is a way to keep the LaserWriter (and LW Plus?) from > printing out its initialization page when you first turn it on. > I heard this tip was given in Macworld June 87. (Which I don't have access > to.) Does anyone know how to do this? Frequent off/on cycles (e.g. daily) > are using up ink and paper I'd like to save. Your sources were correct. The June 1987 issue of MacWorld details the way to do it. Because things were brain damaged back then, they tell you to hook MacTerminal to the LW and type the postscript code directly into the device. That may be well for some, but with the advent of postscript downloaders, this hassle is rendered obsolete. My favorite is "SendPS 1.21" by Adobe (available on sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac directory). There's also "Postscript Tool" by Helicon Designs, but it's not as good for downloading PS code--you have to type the CTRL-D yourself after it ships the code to the LW. Below are postscript code hacks I did (which were approved by our PS person here). Save each of these into text files and ship them to the laserwriter using a PS downloader. Don't "Print" from a word processor unless you change the font to PS Escape (if you have it and have read its documentation). There's no immediate effect, but the next time you turn the LW on, it won't be wasting that extra sheet and bit of toner. The "startuppage on" file is included in case someone is collecting those sheets for usage records (or if you want to see the page every now and then). ------------beginning of "startuppage on" -------------- %!PS-Adobe-1.0 serverdict begin 0 exitserver statusdict begin true setdostartpage end ----------------------end of file------------------------- ------------beginning of "startuppage off" -------------- %!PS-Adobe-1.0 serverdict begin 0 exitserver statusdict begin false setdostartpage end ----------------------end of file------------------------- > thanks, You're welcome. > Greg Sorensen J. Chris Cooley Univ. of Texas Comp. Center Austin, TX 78712 512/471-3241 x229 {im4u,husc6,uunet}!ut-sally!ut-emx!jcc
SCHWER@KL.SRI.COM (Leonard Schwer) (05/20/88)
If you pull the paper tray out slightly at power up and wait for the green light before placeing it back, the ALW won't print the initialization page. A kludge at best.
dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) (05/20/88)
In article <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu.UUCP (A. Gregory Sorensen) writes: >I have heard there is a way to keep the LaserWriter (and LW Plus?) from >printing out its initialization page when you first turn it on. >I heard this tip was given in Macworld June 87. (Which I don't have access Well I do know that there is a postscript program that can be sent to the LW to turn off the start page, but I don't know postscript so I can't help you But we had that same problem in the store I used to work at, and we found that if we pulled the paper tray out just a little bit then the printer would skip printing the startup page. Not the *best* solution, but it works until someone in netland is nice enought to respond with the postscript fix. -- David M. O'Rourke Disclaimer: I don't represent the school. All opinions are mine!
mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (05/20/88)
In article <2565@ut-emx.UUCP>, jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley) writes: > In article <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (A. Gregory Sorensen) writes: > > I have heard there is a way to keep the LaserWriter (and LW Plus?) from > > printing out its initialization page when you first turn it on. > > I heard this tip was given in Macworld June 87. (Which I don't have access > > to.) Does anyone know how to do this? Frequent off/on cycles (e.g. daily) > > are using up ink and paper I'd like to save. > > Your sources were correct. The June 1987 issue of MacWorld details the > way to do it. Because things were brain damaged back then, they tell you > to hook MacTerminal to the LW and type the postscript code directly into > the device. That may be well for some, but with the advent of postscript > downloaders, this hassle is rendered obsolete. > .... > J. Chris Cooley Another easier way to go about this is to just pull the paper tray out of the printer just far enough to turn the paper out light on. Then when the printer finishes warming up (the green light stops flashing) just nudge the paper tray back in. This is a simple solution. But maybe some people like playing with postscript. Michael Niehaus UUCP: ..!{uunet,pur-ee,iuvax}!bsu-cs!mithomas
hpoppe@scdpyr.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) (05/20/88)
In article <5444@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu.UUCP (A. Gregory Sorensen) writes: >OK, I know this must be common knowledge, but... > >I have heard there is a way to keep the LaserWriter (and LW Plus?) from >printing out its initialization page when you first turn it on. >I heard this tip was given in Macworld June 87. (Which I don't have access >to.) Does anyone know how to do this? Frequent off/on cycles (e.g. daily) >are using up ink and paper I'd like to save. > >thanks, > >Greg Sorensen The following PostScript programs allow one to disable or enable the printing of the "start page". % This script disables the printing of the startup page. serverdict begin 0 exitserver statusdict begin false setdostartpage end % This script enables the printing of the startup page. serverdict begin 0 exitserver statusdict begin true setdostartpage end The "0" before "exitserver" is the password which allows one to change the persistent printer parameters. "0" is the default password. It is possible that the password on your printer has been set to some other value. If you plan to do this from a Mac, you will need a utility such as "SendPS" to send the PostScript program to the printer. Herb Poppe NCAR INTERNET: hpoppe@scdpyr.UCAR.EDU (303) 497-1296 P.O. Box 3000 CSNET: hpoppe@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307 UUCP: hpoppe@scdpyr.UUCP
Eric_Shockwave-Rider_Larson@cup.portal.com (05/21/88)
Widgets, a handy tool distributed with Disktop has an option to turn off the init page. There is probably a simple Postscript code fragment to do the same thing, that could possibly captured from Widgets by telling it to turn off the Init page of an Appletalk Imagewriter.
jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley) (05/21/88)
In article <3160@bsu-cs.UUCP>, mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes: > Another easier way to go about this is to just pull the paper tray out of the > printer just far enough to turn the paper out light on. Then when the printer > finishes warming up (the green light stops flashing) just nudge the paper > tray back in. This is a simple solution. But maybe some people like playing > with postscript. Yes. I used to do that until I found the postscript answer. Then I abandoned that kludgy work-around. Now I don't have to worry about standing there with the paper tray out until the lw has gone through all its start-up procedures. Just click and go. No problem. Besides, all the "playing with postscript" is done for you. Just shoot this bit of code to the LW and it does the rest. Very simple. I guess it all boils down to what people consider "simple." > > Michael Niehaus > UUCP: ..!{uunet,pur-ee,iuvax}!bsu-cs!mithomas -- J. Chris Cooley | husc6! -\ Computation. Center (COM 1) | im4u! -->-ut-sally!ut-emx!jcc Univ. of Texas at Austin | uunet! -/ Austin, TX 78712 |