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In article <400@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM>
marc@kong.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Marc Rhodes) writes:

>My Macintosh was recently moved from an Appletalk network to a an
>ethernet network.  The new network has a Sun machine with an Imagen
>laser printer as a server.  I thought that I could perform this sequence
>to print on the Imagen printer:

In article <RICH.89Aug21230411@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us>
rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) replys:

>>I've been having considerable luck with macps available at your
>>nearest mac FTP site.  Get it, try it.

We have a problem in printing Macintosh II generated postscript  files
on  a  NEC  LC 890 attached to a Sun workstation serial port.  We have
already discovered how to produce the Apple laserprep  information  by
using  the  command-K print option on the Mac. I ftp'd this to our Sun
and removed the  postscript  file  description  that  came  after  the
laserprep  info.  I  then  had  to  add  a  line  near the top of this
postscript prep file so the laserwriter would save the Apple  prep  in
VM.  The line enables the laserwriter to exit the serverloop until the
next EOF and is as follows: "serverdict begin 0 exitserver".   I  sent
this  file  to  the  laserwriter  to  prepare  it  for  subsequent Mac
postscript files.

To produce  postscript  files  on  the  Mac  that  don't  contain  the
laserprep, we used the F print option. After ftping one of these files
to the Sun, it WILL print, but at the end of the print job the printer
goes  into a loop spewing out "improper response: %%[ job: ; document:
name; status: waiting; source: serial 9 ]%%". The easiest way to reset
the  printer  seems  to  be  by  removing the job from the queue, then
turning the printer off and on. Actually,  I  hacked  a  script  which
temporarily  disables printing for everyone else while the Mac file is
printed, then activates the printer's interactive mode to reset it  to
"on line idle".

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I have  to  override  the  more
elegant  line spooling system, and would much appreciate any advice on
this topic. Perhaps there is something more that one has to do to  the
laserprep file? If you don't want to bog everyone down with reruns, my
E-Mail address is jeff@geog.ubc.ca.

By  the  way,  what  is  macps?   We're at UBC  (University of British
Columbia)  and  I'm  not  familiar  with  Mac FTP sites.  Could anyone
recommend a close one to here?