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- From: scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen)
- Subject: HP Laserjet printing Mac->UNIX??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.221520.10201@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Sender: scowen@wfpc3 (Paul A. Scowen)
- Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:15:20 GMT
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- Hello,
-
- I'm not the most learned of Postscript gurus but here's a problem we're
- having that it seems someone must have encountered in the past. We'd be
- very grateful for any help or suggestions people might have.
-
- We have a HP LaserJet III attached to a DECstation 5000 series machine. On
- the same machine we're running CAP 6.0 pl100. We have zero problems with aufs
- operations, and have been trying to get lwsrv up to allow printing to the HP
- printer from the Macs.
-
- Our first attempt was to simply send a job from Word to the (successfully)
- advertised location in the LaserWriter category of Appletalk. This resulted
- in the printer sitting there jung for a long time and no page resulting.
-
- By the way the invokation of lwsrv is:
-
- ${CAP}/lwsrv -N -n "HP III in PSF242" -p psf242 -a /usr/local/cap
- -f /usr/local/cap/LWPlusFonts -r -l /usr/local/cap/lwlog -T crtolf
-
- The file that is kept by the -r is completely viewable by previwers like
- Ghostscript, and is printable on Apple laserwriters when ftp'd to the machines
- driving them.
-
- I guess my question is: what is it about the HP printers that is different, and
- what do I need to do/change to get the thing to successfully print. We have
- tried installing the HP printer drivers on the Mac, but it changes nothing in
- terms of the performance of the files.
-
- To re-iterate the files ARE successfully transmitted to the UNIX box, are
- processed with their dictionaries, and are sent to the desired printer queue,
- but from then on it's a HP specific problem.
-
- Thanks again for any help you might be able to give.
-
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