Subject: Re: Will papd work with a SPARCprinter?
From: Mark Smith (mcs@umich.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 20 1993 - 17:27:52 EDT
>From: "Jon J. Brewster" <jjb@cs.wayne.edu>
> To: netatalk-admins@itd.umich.edu
>
> Attempts to send a Mac print job to the SPARC printer result in some rather
> obscure PostScript-looking incantations out of NeWSprint...
What version of the LaserWriter driver are the Macs using to print? It
sounds like either something in the Postscript job is LaserWriter-specific
(and this not agreeable to NeWSPrint) or something is mangling the job.
One thing you can try is changing the lines in papd/lp.c that set up the
control file to use 'f' instead of a 'l' where the files to print are
specified; this is rumored to make things work better when printing to
NeXT attached printers. The two lines in papd/lp.c that you should change
are line 189 and 194. They both start out as "addcfentry( 'l', ...)";
simply change the 'l' to 'f'. In netatalk 1.3b, the lines are one further
into the file (190 and 195).
Alternatively, you could get the new Apple LaserWriter 8.0 driver and set
it up with a ppd file for NeWSPrint and your SPARCPrinter. That might
work better (or not).
-Mark
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