RE: [WinMac] Mac printing to HP LaserJet via NT

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 17:07:43 -0500

At 04:26 PM 11/2/98 -0500, Pierce, Ian wrote:
>Interesting. We have several HP printers here, and I saw the "Offending
>Command" error frequently when trying to print from Quark. The fix was to
>always choose Postscript Level 1 on Quark's confusing printer dialogs. In
>my case the printer was a HP 5M; maybe it doesn't support PostScript as well
>as other HP products. Or the problem could have been Quark. All I know is
>that switching to Level 1 output made our documents print again.

Are you spooling to/through an NT server when you experience this Quark
problem? If so then you could be using the server's PostScript processing
rather than the printer's.

If you look in the properties of a printer on such a server and click on
the Print Processor button, you'll probably see 2 processor's listed,
winprint and SFMPSPRT (get it? "Services For Macintosh PostScript
PRinTer"). winprint has a number of Default Datatypes but SFMPSPRT only has
one, PSCRIPT1. I assume that stands for PostScript Level 1. So how do you
spool for Macs but let them use a printer's built-in PostScript processing?
Well, the Print Processor window has a 'Always spool RAW datatype'
checkbox. Maybe if that's checked it'll work.

As for the error that started this thread, maybe they should check the
security settings on the shared printer. I believe for Macs to print they
have to let the 'Everyone' Group 'Print' since Macs don't have an
authentication method that works with shared printers (as far as I can
tell).

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