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Started by Doug Cimperman
Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:44
How To Uninstall Postscript Drivers?
Author: Doug Cimperman
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:44
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:44
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A computer running Win98SE recently had some Adobe software installed (Design Collection-PS7,IL10,Acr,InDesign). The postscript printer drivers were also mistakenly installed, but the connected printer doesn't support postscript. Upon reboot, the computer immediately began to hang frequently during startup, during shutdown and whenever printing from any software was attempted. All the Adobe software was installed one at a time (with reboots inbetween each install) and the problems began immediately after the postscript driver was installed. The printer's real drivers have been reinstalled and the computer can now print, but still runs very slowly during startup, shutdown and printing. The computer does produce and print PDF files from InDesign properly. ...... Is there any uninstall information for this driver anywhere? The only two printer driver files listing in Win98 are the two from the printer's own driver install program, and Win98 shows no problems with the printer.
Re: How To Uninstall Postscript Drivers?
Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:21
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:21
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If you delete the last instance of a printer using a particular driver, Windows should remove the driver. Aandi Inston
Re: How To Uninstall Postscript Drivers?
Author: Doug Cimperman
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:55
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:55
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-The regular Lexmark printer icon was removed when the original Lexmark printer drivers were uninstalled. Only the Distiller and "capture fax bvrp" icons remained. -I don't know what "capture fax bvrp" is or where it came from, either.... The PC's problems disappeared when there was no printer of any kind installed, but returned when the printer was re-installed (with newer updated drivers), so I'd bet the postscript driver still exists in there somewhere. - What does Distiller actually do? Why would you need to use it? For that matter, what is Acrobat used for, when InDesign can export PDF's anyway?
Re: How To Uninstall Postscript Drivers?
Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:59
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:59
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The Distiller driver is used to make PDFs from other applications. Not everyone uses InDesign. But didn't you say things were fine with Distiller there, and only bad when you added the instance for a real printer? So long as Distiller is there, you didn't uninstall the driver... Distiller was using it! But that also seems to prove that the PostScript driver is not, by itself, causing the problem. It is the printer instance. Aandi Inston
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