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Thanks for all the answers I have received on my query. I now have
several solutions to my problem.

At the time I asked the question I was running the LaserWriter driver
version 6.0. I also tried with my old v5.2 driver. I tried printing to
all sorts of PS output devices. LaserWriter NTX II, LN03R, LPS-40,
even a Linotronic 300. No go.

One of the first responses I got was from Kenneth Holden Chang
<khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> who wrote:

>
>1) Draw the rectangle. Fill it with black.
>2) Write the text. 
>3) Select the text object. Under the "Object" menu, select the "Object..."
>command. Change the Mode to "Bic."
>4) Drag the text over the rectangle. If you don't see anything, do a command-F
>to bring the text to the front.
>

I tried it, and it worked ok. It seemed a little silly to use BIC
instead of setting the foreground color, but it worked.

Then today I got a letter from Rich Irwin <irwin@oscar.ccm.udel.edu>
that wrote:

>
>You will need to use the color laserwriter drivers (6.0.1) to get white on
>black output.  Use 'print using color' and all should work fine.
>

So I switched to the 6.0.1 driver, and lo and behold: it worked!

So now I have both a workaround and a solution. Thanks to you all!

(And thanks to On Location that helped me find the 11 different
LaserWriter drivers that are lying around on the campus network and
determine which was the newest one.)

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