Subject: procsets and papd
From: Simon Gill (Simon.Gill@brunel.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 15 1994 - 09:49:10 EDT
Dear Netatalk experts,
I would be very grateful if someone could shed some light on the use of
procsets in papd (part of the netatalk package).
I am using system 7.1 with laserwriter 8.1.1, printing to three printers
that use papd and lpd. The mechanism works well except a laserwriter II
NTX. The other printers are a HP4 with the correct ppd file, and a
Tektronix colour which uses an Indigo as the RIP, and I customized a ppd
file to work with this.
The laserwriter (II NTX) is connected to a UNIX box which is running nwi
filter for accounting. When a mac postcript job is created (print to file)
and printed from a shell with lpr or InterPrint the job will print, however
if the same file is printed via papd (ie direct) the job queues then is
flushed by the filter. I assumed the filter was to blame, but I think that
the procset we have 'AppleDict 71 0' could well be the culprit, as this was
created with Pagemaker (a bad printing program), and the procset is rather
large approx. 110K which does seems excessive.
What is the recommended procset for papd and laserwriter 8, and are there
any big problems with using laserwriter 8?
I have tried Laserwriter 7 too, but the same thing happens.
Many thanks
Simon Gill
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Simon Gill
Department of Design
Brunel University
Egham
Surrey TW20 OJZ
United Kingdom
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Tel: +44 784 431341 email: Simon.Gill@brunel.ac.uk
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