jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) (12/13/90)
Problem: I sent a four-page corporate newsletter to a Lino shop for film output. Two out of four pages came out fine. But the two pages that contained scanned images (300 dpi, 256 grayscale, HSD Scan-X Professional scanner) could not print out! The shop has a Lino L300 with RIP4. The first page was about 3MB, second page and third page about 40KB each, fourth page about 3MB. As you've probably guessed, the first and fourth pages contain the scanned images. I selected the Lino printer from the print panel, and then use the "Save" option to save everything to Postscript. The newsletter was created using FrameMaker 2.0b. Images (two) were scanned in using the HSD Scan-X Professional scanner at 300-dpi and 256 grayscale. The scanned images were saved in TIFF and imported into FrameMaker. The pages were "printed" into separate files (i.e. page1.ps, page2.ps, etc.). The files were then FTP'ed to my 386SX PC (ASCII transfer). The big files were compressed using PKZIP (LZH algorithm) in order to fit them onto several 1.44MB floppies to take to the Lino shop. I assumed that since pages which didn't contain scanned images printed without any problem, the culprit must be the scanned images. But Postscript is Postscript and it should be compatible ... from one true Postscript machine (NeXT) to another true Postscript device (the Linotronic L300). Are the pages with scanned images too "complicated" for the L300? Any thing I've missed so far? Anyways, this problem is driving me nuts! I welcome any suggestions or words of wisdom any of you can offer ... some real experience would help. Thanks in advance. :-( Joe jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca -- ***************** "Happiness is a warm gun ... " *************** | NeXT --> The ultimate electronic publishing platform! | | Joseph Chin --> jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca | ****************************************************************