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- From: veloso@husc10.harvard.edu (Manuel Veloso)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Modifying LaserPrep file in System 7.1 for LJ IIISi
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- Date: 13 Dec 92 07:48:24 GMT
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- pyrros@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Christos T. Pyrros) writes:
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- >We have a Mac SE/30 printing via a Novell 3.11 network to an HP LJ3Si.
- >The problem is that we can't leave the 3Si in PostScript mode, because
- >most of the users are DOS (ugh!!).
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- >All I need to do is get the Mac to spit out a "swtich to PS mode" command
- >at the very beginning of each and every print job; it's just a 2-line
- >command.
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- >Any ideas as to how I can do this? Has anyone else done this before?
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- >Thanks,
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- >Chris
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- Well, assuming that the command can be sent over appletalk (& interpreted
- by the printer), you could find, um, stuff the command in text into a
- (or the) PREC 103 resource in the Laserwriter driver (see: LoDown o
- on Downloading)...the PREC 103 gets downloaded in front of every job.
- There doesn't seem to be a way, though, to download something after a job
- (to switch the printer back to HPGL?). You could redefine the /quit operator,
- maybe, to switch it back to the original emulation.
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- Manuel
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