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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!isucard.card.iastate.edu!MLONG
  3. From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
  4. Subject: Re: OS/2 won't print.
  5. Message-ID: <1684BDDCA.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: CARD
  8. References:  <1992Aug21.105923.10268@waikato.ac.nz>
  9. Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:46:15 GMT
  10. Lines: 34
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Aug21.105923.10268@waikato.ac.nz>                               
  13. hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:                                                    
  14.                                                                                 
  15. >                                                                               
  16. >I have a problem printing to a postscript printer from OS/2 2.0 Nothing I do   
  17. >seems to make it work. I have a Silentwriter 290 (Postscript printer) and I am 
  18. >using the silentwriter 290 driver that came with os/2, but the job just doesn't
  19. >seem to want to do anything. There are no errors or anything, the print job    
  20. >goes into the queue, the queue says printing, the printer says processing,     
  21. >waiting, processing, etc, and then it says ready! But no printout appears. Is  
  22. >it because there is no header being downloaded perhaps? If so, how do I make   
  23. >the drivers download a header to the priter each time, instead of thinking that
  24. >there is one resident.  I can't find anything in the on-line docs./            
  25. >                                                                               
  26. >Anyone??                                                                       
  27. >                                                                               
  28. >TIA.                                                                           
  29. >                                                                               
  30. >--                                                                             
  31. >============================================================================== 
  32. >|  Hamish Marson   <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz>                             OS/2 | 
  33. >|  Programmer (n/5), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences           | 
  34. >|  University of Waikato,                                                    | 
  35. >|  Hamilton, New Zealand.                                                    | 
  36. >|Disclaimer:  Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the   | 
  37. >|             finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers   | 
  38. >|             opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree)               | 
  39. >============================================================================== 
  40. >  Q. If Nuclear Tests are so safe, why don't the French do them under Paris?   
  41. >                                                                               
  42. This sounds alot like the wrong OS/2 print driver is being used                 
  43. Double check that you are using the correct print driver.                       
  44. Mike Long                                                                       
  45. Iowa State Univ.                                                                
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