heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) (06/07/91)
We are having very strange printing problems all of a sudden trying to print from a Mac IIsi running 6.0.x. When we try to print from MacWrite, Word, Draw, or Paint, we get the message, "Print Monitor found that file xxxxx was damaged and cannot be printed." These files can be printed from PageMaker, no problem. New files, old files, it makes no difference. We can print only from PageMaker. Norton Disk Doctor finds no problem with any of the files. I have recently upgraded a IIfx on the network to System 7, and have copied all the System 7 printer stuff onto the IIsi, as directed. It was shortly after this happened that the IIsi started with the crazy stuff above. Restoring the printer drivers to those from 6.0.x doesn't help. Help! -- --- Vincent Heuring Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Colorado - Boulder heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU
jose@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Jose M. Rosado Roman) (06/07/91)
In article <1991Jun6.190919.964@colorado.edu> heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes: > >We are having very strange printing problems all of a sudden >trying to print from a Mac IIsi running 6.0.x. When we try >to print from MacWrite, Word, Draw, or Paint, we get the message, > > "Print Monitor found that file xxxxx > was damaged and cannot be printed." > >These files can be printed from PageMaker, no problem. New >files, old files, it makes no difference. We can print only >from PageMaker. Norton Disk Doctor finds no problem with any >of the files. > >I have recently upgraded a IIfx on the network to System 7, and >have copied all the System 7 printer stuff onto the IIsi, >as directed. It was shortly after this happened that the IIsi >started with the crazy stuff above. Restoring the printer drivers >to those from 6.0.x doesn't help. > >Help! > > >-- >--- > Vincent Heuring Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering > University of Colorado - Boulder heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU The IIsi doesn't run on anything but 6.0.7 or 7.0 which has been a bit flakey on some of the EE machines around here. Say, check your copy of printmonitor, have you tried printing without it? Perhaps you are running with a flakey telnet... I've heard of stuff affecting printings that I wouldn't of suspected before... But with the telnet fixes we seem to be back in business. We haven't upgraded in Space past 6.0.5 and I don't suspect we will until the fall... "Patience is a virtue" Read that somewhere else... Isn't the printer driver the only thing you have to replace? There is a 7.0 compatible 6.0.7driver that should keep lasers from rebooting... Seems strange to me to be mixing 6.0.7 and 7.0 stuff on the same machine... -- Pink Pirate, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Disclaimer: I am only related to my parents. "The day they invented excuses, ...",by ??? Sorry, I forgot! Jose M. Rosado, Radar Engineer, ex-grad student soon to be again
chem0255@waikato.ac.nz (06/07/91)
In article <1991Jun6.190919.964@colorado.edu>, heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes: > > We are having very strange printing problems all of a sudden > trying to print from a Mac IIsi running 6.0.x. When we try > to print from MacWrite, Word, Draw, or Paint, we get the message, > > "Print Monitor found that file xxxxx > was damaged and cannot be printed." > > These files can be printed from PageMaker, no problem. New > files, old files, it makes no difference. We can print only > from PageMaker. Norton Disk Doctor finds no problem with any > of the files. > > I have recently upgraded a IIfx on the network to System 7, and > have copied all the System 7 printer stuff onto the IIsi, > as directed. It was shortly after this happened that the IIsi > started with the crazy stuff above. Restoring the printer drivers > to those from 6.0.x doesn't help. > > Help! > > > -- > --- > Vincent Heuring Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering > University of Colorado - Boulder heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU Did you upgrade the Print Monitor. We come across the same error with the system 7.0 printer drivers and the old Print Monitor when trying to sort out a problem with word printing under 7.0. It didn't fix our problem but it did sort out the damaged file error. Les.
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (06/07/91)
>In article <1991Jun6.190919.964@colorado.edu> heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes: >> >>We are having very strange printing problems all of a sudden >>trying to print from a Mac IIsi running 6.0.x. When we try >>to print from MacWrite, Word, Draw, or Paint, we get the message, >> >> "Print Monitor found that file xxxxx >> was damaged and cannot be printed." >> >>These files can be printed from PageMaker, no problem. New >>files, old files, it makes no difference. We can print only >>from PageMaker. Norton Disk Doctor finds no problem with any >>of the files. Based on the programs which fail, I'd guess that LaserPrep is missing or damaged. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
franklin@snowball.ucdavis.edu (Paul Franklin) (06/09/91)
In article <1991Jun7.152658.22875@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: > >Based on the programs which fail, I'd guess that LaserPrep is missing or >damaged. >-- >Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu > .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus. Just so you know, starting with LaserWriter 6.1, the LaserPrep file is contained in the driver. The LaserPrep file is for the benefit of the printing spooler module of AppleShare (I don't remember the name)--I think. Note that it went down to 3k from at least 20k. --Paul Franklin pdfranklin@ucdavis.edu
slang@bnr.ca (Steven Langlois) (06/09/91)
I have also noticed similiar but not the same problems, especially with printing speed. Since I have upgraded to System 7 printing software, the speed of printing has been extremely slow!!!!! I have also noticed reliability problems with printing, sometimes things are OK and other times I get "'filename' failed to print because because of a printing error" type dialog. Steven Langlois ISDN Basic Rate Access BNR, a subsidiary of Northern Telecom Internet: slang@bnr.ca
wchan@mortar.uucp (Wilson Chan) (06/10/91)
In article <1991Jun9.130852.24795@bmers95.bnr.ca>, slang@bnr.ca (Steven Langlois) writes: > I have also noticed similiar but not the same problems, especially with > printing speed. Since I have upgraded to System 7 printing software, > the speed of printing has been extremely slow!!!!! I have also noticed > reliability problems with printing, sometimes things are OK and other > times I get "'filename' failed to print because because of a printing > error" type dialog. Unless you have upgraded you system to sys7, you don't really need to have system 7 printing software. Its main advantage is supporting true type and grade-scale/color printing. The only reason that I see you need the printing software upgrade is because someone on your localtalk network upgraded to system 7. Good luck! --------------------- Wilson Chan