jim@Corp.Sun.COM (James Mangin) (02/07/90)
I have Microsoft EXCEL loaded on my 386i Workstation and am having major difficulties getting it to print to our local laserwriter. Does anyone have any past experiece with this? Our IR group does not support third party software and therefore have not been much help. The setup.pc directory is correct and printer locations set, but when trying to print from EXCEL all that comes out of the printer is a blank page with: Error spooling binary file. Any help is appreciated. Regards.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Mangin jim@cadillac.Corp.Sun.COM Sun Microsystems, Inc. (415) 336-0434 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ries@VENICE.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (02/09/90)
In article <9002081825.AA27459@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> jim@Corp.Sun.COM (James Mangin) writes:
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->I have Microsoft EXCEL loaded on my 386i Workstation and
->am having major difficulties getting it to print to our local laserwriter.
->Does anyone have any past experiece with this? Our IR group does not support
->third party software and therefore have not been much help. The setup.pc
->directory is correct and printer locations set, but when trying to print from
->EXCEL all that comes out of the printer is a blank page with: Error spooling
->binary file. Any help is appreciated.
->
I'd take a wild [8-)] guess and say you are trying to send binary
(possibly softfonts or a non-encapsulated binary) instead of
(ASCII) postscript.
I don't know about EXCEL under DOS, but under WINDOWS you have to
specify, via the control program, that you with to use the (a) postscript
printer for a particular port.
Once a particular printer type has been specified, it's up to EXCEL to
know what to send to that port (printer). In any case, I suggest
checking out that the correct (postscript) printer is specified
in either EXCEL (or CONTROL, if WINDOWS, or both).
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Marc Ries
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