[comp.lang.postscript] What is the printer waiting for? and waiting..waiting..waiting

wain@seac.UUCP (Wain Dobson) (01/04/91)

In article <400@twg.bc.ca> bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
=We  are  trying  something new:  to print a PageMaker file  to  a
=postscript  printer configured on FILE (rather than a real port),
=then  sending the file through a communication program (with  DOS
=to  Unix file conversion) to our SCO Xenix 2.3.2 system, then  do
="lp -dlaser file_name".
=
Somehow in all this, I imagine that "laser" is a postscript
interface and that you have a postscript cartdige, etc. in
the laser jet. Or "laser" is actually a translator, translating
the ps into hpcl. Hopefully!!!
-- 
Wain Dobson, Vancouver, B.C.
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bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) (01/05/91)

Well  this turned out to be easy.  We had configured the  printer
in  Windows  to be Encapsulated Postscript, rather than  Printer.
After setting it to Printer, all went smoothly.  I even tried two
versions  of  the  print file;  one converted from  DOS  to  Unix
format  and the other not.  They both produced identical  looking
output on the laser.

Thanks for the many email replies.  I hope I remembered to answer
each one.  If anyone else is having trouble printing to a file in
Windows  3, transfer file to Unix host, then print on  postscript
laser,  I  would  be happy to reply to an email request  for  our
configuration settings.
-- 
Bill Irwin    -       The Westrheim Group     -    Vancouver, BC, Canada
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