eclement@aragorn.inria.fr (Eric Clement) (02/21/91)
The problem : we have n LaserWriter on our network and one color postscrit printer. Yesterday i sent a slide to the color printer (that was fine) and a few hours later a listing to the same color printer because in the middle i forgot to switch off from the color printer... At about $2 per color page, i am not very proud of my action. Does any one knows something that would : 1) take attention of the user to the name of the printer in the standart print dialog (blinking and/or colored name of the printer i.e.) 2) manage a list of "special printers" and adds a level of warnig dialog when printing to theses "special printers" 3) do anything else to avoid such wastes. Am I the only one doing such careless mistakes ? Thanks in advance for any help. Eric.
jhlieske@phoenix.princeton.edu (Jay Lieske) (02/26/91)
In article <10184@mirsa.inria.fr> eclement@aragorn.inria.fr (Eric Clement) writes: >The problem : we have n LaserWriter on our network and one color postscrit printer. Yesterday i sent a slide to the color printer (that was fine) and a few hours later a listing to the same color printer because in the middle i forgot to switch off from the color printer... At about $2 per color page, i am not very proud of my action. > >Does any one knows something that would : > >1) take attention of the user to the name of the printer in the standart print dialog (blinking and/or colored name of the printer i.e.) > >2) manage a list of "special printers" and adds a level of warnig dialog when printing to theses "special printers" > >3) do anything else to avoid such wastes. > >Am I the only one doing such careless mistakes ? > >Thanks in advance for any help. > >Eric. > I haven't tried this, but what if you made a copy of the LaserWriter driver (called it Color LaserWriter) and edited the print dialogs of it to be obviously color and not black-and-white? I think that the actual printer choice is kept in the System file, not LaserWriter, so you couldn't have one driver print to one printer and the other driver to the other printer; but if the print dialog were obvious, it could remind you to switch to the other printer. --Jay jhlieske@phoenix.princeton.edu