Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Problems sending binary data to parrallel port postscript printer
From: John Barry -Technician (John.Barry@tees.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 16 1998 - 15:27:05 EST
>
> At 19:37 Uhr +0100 16.02.1998, Bill Hart wrote:
> >Hi I'm desperate,
> > this must be a common problem, but I can't find a reference to it
> >anywhere.
> >Anyway the situation is
> >Macs running Laserwriter 8.5.1 printing images from photoshop via netatalk to
> >a Linux (Red Hat 4.2) or FreeBSD (2.2.5) box with a Tektronix Phaser IIIPXi
> >printer connected via a parrallel port. Spooling works fine (the whole idea
> >of doing it was to get the printer off localtalk). Printing files with only
> >ascii in them works fine, printing images (which are binary encoded) causes
> >the printer to choke..
We have the same problems here. The problem seems to be with colour, if the
image is a colour document, then the printer processes the job for a good 20
minutes then spits out a header sheet and nothing else. However, if the image
is saved as black and white first, we don't seem to have a problem.
I'm spooling from a SPARC IPX (SunOS 4.1.4 & NeWSprint2.2) to HP LaserJet 6 via
a spiderport conected via the serial port. (the ppd files I'm using are for a
LaserJet 5, the newest I could find on the Adobe site.)
later
jb
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