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Re: I need a program to PRINT the printer's status

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From: adam smith
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 04:53
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timur@seas.gwu.edu (The Time Traveler) writes:

> 
> 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.
> 

There are a number of great programs that do this. It depends on what 
platform you are using. The bottom line though is always this...
The status report that they all print ought to be a short postscript program 
that polls various bits of hard and form ware for their condition and then 
includes that in a printer report. And yes it ought to print a full list of 
fonts available. 
The PC-based "PSExecutive", which is supplied free to QMS Printer owners, 
has a couple of fine routines and is relatively common. If worst comes to 
worst, just ask a QMS user to put "status.ps" or any of the other routines 
onto a disk and use a downloader to run it.
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