squash@math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King) (01/25/91)
A just-out-of-the-box Apple personal laserwriter sits by my desk
connected to a Sun3 running UNIX. It prints from its feeder tray
fine.
In my ignorance, the only way I can get it to manual-feed is to be
printing a dvi file: I run the program
dvips
with the -m option set. From the man page:
NAME
dvips - convert a TeX dvi file to PostScript (PostScript is
a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.)
...
-m Specify manual feed for printer.
I presume this puts some postscript code into the resulting postscript
file.
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS:
dvipr -m one_page_file.dvi
prints just fine, using manual feed.
Now try
dvipr two_page_file.dvi
prints fine, feeding from the tray.
dvipr -m two_page_file.dvi
feeds both pages manually. The first page prints fine. The second
page suddenly goes white. No error indication appear on the printer
or from UNIX.
ADDITIONAL, POSSIBLY IRRELEVANT, INFORMATION:
I did this twice with a Tex document that has many fonts. The first
time, the upper half of the second page printed (aligned correctly
with the top of the paper) and the bottom half was blank.
The second time (same document, two minutes later) only the top 1/4
of the second page printed.
I then did dvipr but without -m and both pages printed perfectly.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Sincerely,
Jonathan squash@math.ufl.edu
Please note: I know nothing about postscript. I am looking for an
answer from a humble user's point-of-view.