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Article #4376Re: What is the printer waiting for? and waiting..waiting..waiting
From: Wain Dobson
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 17:10
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 17:10
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In article <400@twg.bc.ca> bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
=We are trying something new: to print a PageMaker file to a
=postscript printer configured on FILE (rather than a real port),
=then sending the file through a communication program (with DOS
=to Unix file conversion) to our SCO Xenix 2.3.2 system, then do
="lp -dlaser file_name".
=
Somehow in all this, I imagine that "laser" is a postscript
interface and that you have a postscript cartdige, etc. in
the laser jet. Or "laser" is actually a translator, translating
the ps into hpcl. Hopefully!!!
--
Wain Dobson, Vancouver, B.C.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!seac!wain From: wain@seac.UUCP (Wain Dobson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: What is the printer waiting for? and waiting..waiting..waiting Message-ID: <5719@seac.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 91 17:10:48 GMT References: <400@twg.bc.ca> Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Organization: SEAC Software Engineering, Vancouver, B.C. Lines: 14