lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) (02/26/91)
The FAQ will probably have an entry recommending against re-using laser printed paper in your printers. The reason is that the toner which is used is not very robust, in that when heated again (which happens when you print) it can come off the other side of the paper. This causes a mess to accumulate in your printer, and probably some pretty rude things to happen. Now to address the even/odd stuff, essentially you need to write a postscript filter which extracts every other page. So you would save your WriteNow document to postscript file, run the filters, and then print the two documents with lpr. There is no packaged filter on the NeXT to do this. Someone will probably write one. Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group Media Laboratory, E15-351, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (02/26/91)
In article <5369@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu writes: >Now to address the even/odd stuff, essentially you need to write >a postscript filter which extracts every other page. So you >would save your WriteNow document to postscript file, run the filters, and >then print the two documents with lpr. There is no packaged filter >on the NeXT to do this. Someone will probably write one. Several someones did quite some time ago. Ask on comp.lang.postscript. However, the NeXT laser printer *does not* like printing double- sided pages. You can get away with about 3 before it begins to leave ugly black marks on subsequent output. Not long after that it starts jamming. :-( -=EPS=-