jacobsd@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU (Dana Jacobsen) (12/14/90)
We have an Apple LaserWriter Plus that is served by UNIX machines and Macs. This printer repeatedly runs out of VM, which means we have to turn it off before it is able to print anything larger than one page. My understanding is that Postscript files can reserve permenent space in the printer. Is there any way to clear this? -- Dana Jacobsen jacobsd@cs.orst.edu
woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (12/17/90)
In article <1990Dec14.123555.21706@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU>, jacobsd@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU (Dana Jacobsen) writes: > > This printer repeatedly runs out of VM, which means we have to turn it off I think that I would be suspicous of the applications driving it. It sounds to me, like someone is either not useing save/restore contexts correctly (no memory management, you gotta do it ), or perhaps someone is not terminating jobs correctly. You also might try telling the applications to download any fonts they need when they need them, rather than persistantly downloading them. Windows will do that, and I presume that the MAC will also. This may or may not entail modifing the fonts as well. Cheers Woody