KHAN@ECLC.USC.EDU (10/29/88)
We are running VMS 4.7 on a decnet cluster of Vax/mircovax machines. Recently, we bought an Apple laserwriter to printout our postscript files made from Matlab and Pgplot. The printer is working but giving us banners not postscript format and dur to improper handeling of control characters, some time we did not get any thing out or some times we get an overlap of two jobs!!! I heard Dec sells a special product Symbiont for LR03R, which may or may not work for Laserwriter. Does any body had such kind of experince or know about this business? Your help is strongly needed. Please send me a personnel E-mail at the address given below if you have any sugession. mkhan @skat.usc.edu -------
marcel@dx7.UUCP (Marcel Bernards) (10/31/88)
In article <12442183935.23.KHAN@ECLC.USC.EDU> KHAN@ECLC.USC.EDU writes: >We are running VMS 4.7 on a decnet cluster of Vax/mircovax machines. >Recently, we bought an Apple laserwriter to printout our postscript >files made from Matlab and Pgplot. The printer is working but giving us >banners not postscript format and dur to improper handeling of control >characters, some time we did not get any thing out or some times we get >an overlap of two jobs!!! I heard Dec sells a special product Symbiont >for LR03R, which may or may not work for Laserwriter. Does any body >had such kind of experince or know about this business? Your help >is strongly needed. > >Please send me a personnel E-mail at the address given below if you >have any sugession. > >mkhan @skat.usc.edu >------- I tried to post an article about this software two weeks agoo. The problem with the DEC symbiont software is that it only supports a DEC LN03r laser. This bastart does talk postscript but it has some extentions in systemdict that are not standart. We are currently trying to get it running but we have no result so far. The major problem(s) is the PS call /papersize that does not exist in my Adobe manual. We think we can expect more than this call alone.. We tried to get some help at DEC Holland but they are just connecting us to several phones instead of giving real support. So ........ Beware of using non DEC LW's Help !! is there someone who has the DEC laserprinter symbiont running ?? =============== Local UNIX & Network System administrator =================== Marcel Bernards | e-mail: ..!mcvax!ecn!marcel Netherlands Energy Research Foundation, ECN | Telex : 57211 REACP NL P.O. Box 1 | Fax : -31 2246 4480 1755 ZG Petten (NH), Holland. | Phone : -31 2246 4342 --------------------------------------------+--------------------------------