Level 1 Driver

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5 total messages Started by John Pote Mon, 27 May 2002 12:58

#1388

Author: John Pote
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 12:58

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Rather than throw an old level 1 printer in the bin (Laserwriter II NTX) I have put it on an old WIN95 machine. Have some problems printing to it. Sometimes works, sometimes dumps the page printing nothing - not even a blank page. From a CAD package various errors (usually of the "ioerror" type) occur. 

Could not find any Level 1 drivers on the Adobe site. Are such "archieve" drivers available and if so where? 

Help appreciated. 

John Pote

Re: Level 1 Driver

#1389

Author: Tim Murray
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:09

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I don't know if older Adobe programs are still on FTP, but the Microsoft
driver supports Level 1.

Re: Level 1 Driver

#1390

Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 15:29

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The Adobe PostScript drivers for Windows 9x no longer support level 1.
You have to use the Microsoft driver or a very, very old Adobe driver.
Old printers of this kind often have too little memory - the "VMError"
error a sure indicator of this.

Aandi Inston

Re: Level 1 Driver

#1394

Author: SaGS
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 07:26

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Version 4.2.6 is available at
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windo
ws, and if I remember correctly it supports Level 1 and 2 (I think support
for Level 1 is the only reason for Adobe to keep this older version
available).

Re: Level 1 Driver

#1396

Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:47

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Nope, it certainly doesn't. The only reason that AdobePS 4.2.6 is left for download is that is the only version of the AdobePS 4.x series that supports Distiller 3.0.x under Windows'9x/Me. 

The ONLY versions of AdobePS that ever supported Level 1 were AdobePS 4.1 and 4.1.1, neither of which is posted nor supported anymore from Adobe's web and FTP sites. 

If you need to use a Level 1 printer with Windows'9x/Me, you need to use Microsoft's PSCRIPT driver that comes with Windows'9x/Me. (As far as we know, they never updated it to remove Level 1 support!) 

- Dov

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