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- From: bruce@maypo.ai.mit.edu (Bruce Walton)
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- Subject: Apple LW-IIg and sun-transcript
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:24:19 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- Hello,
-
- I'm having trouble installing an Apple LaserWriter IIg printer using
- sun's transcript spooling software.
-
- First problem is that the printer (from the manual) does not seem to
- support 38400-baud, unlike every other Apple LW printer I've seen
- over the last 5 years. It used to be that you could send these commands:
-
- %!PS-Adobe
- serverdict begin 0 exitserver
- statusdict begin 25 38400 0 setsccbatch
-
- With this printer, these commands seem to have no effect. Worse yet,
- the manual has scant mention of how to setup this printer on any other
- computer besides Apple (tm). The baud options available (according to
- the manual) step from 19200-baud to 57600-baud (not supportable by
- SunOS-4.1.1).
-
- OK, so we suppose that 19200-baud is the best we can do for now,
- and proceed to set up the printer.
-
- Second problem: Postscript files spooled to the printer produce an
- error message "WARNING: Check spooled PostScript for control
- characters" (and sometimes "printer out of sync"). This, even though
- the postscript seems to print OK. In looking at the code for
- sun-transcript's "pscomm" filter, it seems that this error is
- generated when the process sees control codes sent back from the
- printer before the job has finished printing.
-
- I'm confused about the compatability of this new model LaserWriter
- IIg. It was purchased as a replacement for an old LWII-NTX, which has
- always worked just fine at 38400-baud using our (very ancient)
- sun-transcript software. Of couse, calling Apple tech support was no
- help, since to them this is a non-standard configuration.
-
- What gives with the IIg? How can I make it behave just like the old NTX?
- Surely the IIg must be backward-compatible with the old models?
-
- All responses welcome! -bruce.
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- Bruce Walton bruce@ai.mit.edu MIT artificial intelligence lab
- 617-253-9667 545 tech sq. cambridge, MA 02139
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