rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) (08/22/89)
In article <400@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM> marc@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Marc Rhodes) writes:
I know that these sort of problems have been discussed often, but since
they did not apply to me I don't remember any of the solutions. Please,
someone, mail or post some suggestions to me. If you need any additional
information (exact printer model, or whatever) I'll find out whatever
you need to know.
I've been having considerable luck with macps available at your
nearest mac FTP site. Get it, try it.
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rich.jeff@ugly.cs.ubc.ca (jeff robert kaminski) (08/23/89)
In article <400@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM> marc@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Marc Rhodes) writes: >My Macintosh was recently moved from an Appletalk network to a an >ethernet network. The new network has a Sun machine with an Imagen >laser printer as a server. I thought that I could perform this sequence >to print on the Imagen printer: In article <RICH.89Aug21230411@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us> rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) replys: >>I've been having considerable luck with macps available at your >>nearest mac FTP site. Get it, try it. We have a problem in printing Macintosh II generated postscript files on a NEC LC 890 attached to a Sun workstation serial port. We have already discovered how to produce the Apple laserprep information by using the command-K print option on the Mac. I ftp'd this to our Sun and removed the postscript file description that came after the laserprep info. I then had to add a line near the top of this postscript prep file so the laserwriter would save the Apple prep in VM. The line enables the laserwriter to exit the serverloop until the next EOF and is as follows: "serverdict begin 0 exitserver". I sent this file to the laserwriter to prepare it for subsequent Mac postscript files. To produce postscript files on the Mac that don't contain the laserprep, we used the F print option. After ftping one of these files to the Sun, it WILL print, but at the end of the print job the printer goes into a loop spewing out "improper response: %%[ job: ; document: name; status: waiting; source: serial 9 ]%%". The easiest way to reset the printer seems to be by removing the job from the queue, then turning the printer off and on. Actually, I hacked a script which temporarily disables printing for everyone else while the Mac file is printed, then activates the printer's interactive mode to reset it to "on line idle". It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I have to override the more elegant line spooling system, and would much appreciate any advice on this topic. Perhaps there is something more that one has to do to the laserprep file? If you don't want to bog everyone down with reruns, my E-Mail address is jeff@geog.ubc.ca. By the way, what is macps? We're at UBC (University of British Columbia) and I'm not familiar with Mac FTP sites. Could anyone recommend a close one to here?
rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) (08/23/89)
In article <4799@ubc-cs.UUCP> jeff@ugly.cs.ubc.ca (jeff robert kaminski) writes:
[lots of stuff on trying to get macScript printing on a PostScript
device...]
Macps is a program that effectively converts MacScript (Which is not
PostScript(tm)) into PostScript. I use it regularly with considerable
luck. It should be on the mac ftp sites(*).
If you have a postscript compatable printer connected to a unix box,
you should also have (or get) a copy of TransScript. TransScript is a
piece of software originally from Adobe (also remarketed by sun) that
includes a postscript driver for the standard printer spooler, a troff
to postscript converter, a ditroff to postscript converted, etc. It's
fairly cheap as these things go, and well worth the cost in
aggravation prevented.
xoxorich.
* you mentioned you don't know where the mac ftp sites are. I don't
either as I'm not on the internet, but I think
sumex-aim.stanford.edu = 36.44.0.6, is the biggie.
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rich.