cckba@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Kent Adams) (04/11/91)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
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Subject: how do you print persistent parameters
Keywords: QUME Scripten PostScript
On campus we have a QUME ScripTEN PostScript laserprinter which for all
intents and purposes is meant to emulate an Apple Laserwriter.
When we print to it from a locally connected Macintosh
it fails with
error: password incorrect;offending command: exitserver
The QUME ScripTEN has a password set in EEROM statusdict
and we believe that the above error message occurs because the
Macintosh is trying to change a persistent parameter in the printer
but the MAC does not know the password.
Before we remove the password so the MAC can change persistent
parameters we want to print those persistent parameters so we can
reset them after the MAC job is finished.
A dumb terminal was attached to the serial port on the printer and
that was used to type commands to the printer.
How do we type out persistent printer parameters from statusdict such as
margins,pagecount,sccbatch etc?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Townsville..4811brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (04/13/91)
In article <1991Apr11.065145.9470@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cckba@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Kent Adams) writes:
<Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
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<Subject: how do you print persistent parameters
<Keywords: QUME Scripten PostScript
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<On campus we have a QUME ScripTEN PostScript laserprinter which for all
<intents and purposes is meant to emulate an Apple Laserwriter.
<When we print to it from a locally connected Macintosh
<it fails with
<
<error: password incorrect;offending command: exitserver
<
<The QUME ScripTEN has a password set in EEROM statusdict
<and we believe that the above error message occurs because the
<Macintosh is trying to change a persistent parameter in the printer
<but the MAC does not know the password.
Don't do it. The EEROM in these printers will only take so many changes
before it will bite the bullet. If you do this every time you print something,
you will burn out the EEROM way too soon.
If this is only a one-time thing, then you are OK, but do keep in mind that
the EEROM will not last forever.
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rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc@spool.cs.wisc.eduzwicky@erg.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky) (04/16/91)
In article <1991Apr11.065145.9470@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cckba@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Kent Adams) writes:
<The QUME ScripTEN has a password set in EEROM statusdict
<and we believe that the above error message occurs because the
<Macintosh is trying to change a persistent parameter in the printer
<but the MAC does not know the password.
The Mac isn't trying to change EEPROM parameters; it's trying to make
persistent changes to the system dictionary. All of your options are
unpleasant; the least unpleasant is to set the ScripTEN's password to
0, which is what the Mac thinks it will be. (The others all involve
modifying the printer drivers on all the Macs.) The Mac is downloading
the Macintosh dictionaries to the printer, which takes a while; it
tries to do it persistently to save the time on future print jobs.
Elizabeth Zwicky
zwicky@erg.sri.com