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Article #1415Re: Need help to set up printing from EXCEL
From: Marc Ries
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 00:54
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 00:54
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In article <9002081825.AA27459@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> jim@Corp.Sun.COM (James Mangin) writes:
->
->I have Microsoft EXCEL loaded on my 386i Workstation and
->am having major difficulties getting it to print to our local laserwriter.
->Does anyone have any past experiece with this? Our IR group does not support
->third party software and therefore have not been much help. The setup.pc
->directory is correct and printer locations set, but when trying to print from
->EXCEL all that comes out of the printer is a blank page with: Error spooling
->binary file. Any help is appreciated.
->
I'd take a wild [8-)] guess and say you are trying to send binary
(possibly softfonts or a non-encapsulated binary) instead of
(ASCII) postscript.
I don't know about EXCEL under DOS, but under WINDOWS you have to
specify, via the control program, that you with to use the (a) postscript
printer for a particular port.
Once a particular printer type has been specified, it's up to EXCEL to
know what to send to that port (printer). In any case, I suggest
checking out that the correct (postscript) printer is specified
in either EXCEL (or CONTROL, if WINDOWS, or both).
--
Marc Ries
ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (ARPA)
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