I need a program to PRINT the printer's status

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From: The Time Traveler
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 16:40

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I'm looking for a postscript program which will print out a report of
the printer's status.  I particularly concerned with whether or not
any of my downloaded fonts are actually still in the printer after the
print job is completed.

I heard that you cannot actually tell whether a type-1 font has been
downloaded or not.  That's fine.  If I could find out how much memory
I have left for downloadable fonts, that's basically the same thing.
I could then download one font, check the amount of memory, download
another, and check again.

Also, stuff like whether color is available, and whether the last
print job was successful or terminated in error, etc.

I'm sure many people would find this a great debugging aid.  

----------------------------------------------------------- The Time Traveler
Sadder still to watch it die                                a.k.a. Timur Tabi
Then never to have known it                      Internet: timur@seas.gwu.edu
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Subject: I need a program to PRINT the printer's status
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