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- From: jay@ermusa.com (Jay McCarthy)
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- Subject: NeWSprint/Manual feed problems
- Keywords: newsprint sparcprinter wordperfect
- Message-ID: <2550@news.cerf.net>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:37:46 GMT
- Sender: news@news.cerf.net
- Organization: Earth Resource Mapping, San Diego
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- Greetings,
-
-
- I have an interesting problem with NeWSprint.
-
- Scenario:
-
- Print several manual fed pages in a row via Word Perfect.
-
- Setup:
- 1 SPARCprinter attached to a IPC running NeWSprint 2.0a
- 4 Word Perfect 5.0 (1/17/92) users with a Apple Laserwriter Driver.
-
- What Happens:
- When trying to print three consecutive letterhead (manual fed) pages one
- of the following happens.
-
- a) It prints the first time and the second time looses the entire print
- job.
- b) looses the print job.
- c) prints the first sheet then looses the rest of the print job.
- d) crashes newsprint to it's knees thus needing to be re-booted.
- (kill -9 / 15 ) don't work.
-
- Steps taken:
-
- Sun:
- 1) Got a loaner SPARCprinter.
- 2) Re-Installed newsprint
- 3) Tried the file at Mountainview.
- 4) Replace cabling
- etc....
- Word Perfect:
- 1) Tried different drivers.
- 2) Tried beta copies of WP.
- etc....
-
- Current status:
-
- Sun: "This postscript is 'Unstructured' therefore theres really
- nothing we can do'"
-
- BTW. I have the _PostScript Language Reference Manual_ by Adobe
- and I cannot find any refference to "Unstructured
- Postscript".
-
- Word Perfect:
-
- "It looks as though we may have to write a new driver for the
- SPARCprinter"
-
- I could have told them that a while ago.
-
- Odities:
-
- Pageview will not render this file correctly either it will simply
- overwrite all pages on top of eachother.
-
- Ghostscript/Ghostview renders this file correctly.
-
- My files print correctly when taken to a MAC and printed on other PS
- printers.
-
- Now the Question:
-
- Has anyone ever had this problem? If so have they overcome it in any way?
- Have I missed anything? Any suggestions?
- Is SUN/WP listening?
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