squash@math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King) (01/18/91)
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. IS THERE ANY WAY to set up the laserwriter so that, when I stick a sheet of paper in its manual-feed slot, the printer automatically feeds from there, rather than the tray? (The manual-feed slot has a plastic finger which is pushed up by the sheet; so in principle the printer can sense the presence of the paper.) 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. 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 I would appreciate reply to 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.