[softwarelist] Re: Postscript printing

In message <444BD209.6020706@xxxxxxxx>
          Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Colin Wood wrote:
>> In article <444B42B2.9030807@xxxxxxxx>,
>>    Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>>Colin Wood wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article <84ba711a4e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>   Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>In message <4e1a3f5674Colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>         Colin Wood <Colin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>[snip]
>> 
>> 
>>>>I saved the PoScript2 file to disc and moved it across to my pc. What
>>>>should it be filetyped? ps or eps? Then how do I send it to my Dell
>>>>3100cn colour laser printer, which supports Postscript 3?
>>>>Colin
>> 
>> 
>>>Try the freeware utility, PrintFile:
>>>http://www.lerup.com/printfile/descr.html
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks - done.
>> 
>> PrintFile dialogue box Printer set to
>> Dell Laser Printer 3100cn PC-PS
>> (selected from menu).
>> 
>> No joy dropping file saved as above, typed either as ps or eps, onto icon.
>> 
>> Lots of paper fed through, blank apart from 1st sheet: had to cancel
>> print. In both cases, first sheet had
>> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
>>         %%Creator:PostScript PDriver module 4.49
>>                 %%CreationDate: 20:52:1
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Hmmm? Works for me ... using the PS2 driver, printing to file from
> OvPro, and then outputting on the PC-side using the LJ1200 PS driver.
> Mind you, I've only attempted to print single pages as a test, but they
> include text plus JPEG, sprite and AW images.
> 
> What happens if you print the pages individually?
> 
> If you want to send me your file (or part of it) I'll run it thru' the
> LJ1200 PS driver.

The application thinks it's a text file. Does its name end .ps ?
(remembering to enable viewing of file extensions. For example, if 
it's been anywhere near Notepad, it might be called mumble.ps.txt, 
with the .txt extension hidden.)

-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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