[WinMac] Quark's PostScript [WAS: Mac printing to HP LaserJet via NT]

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 10:11:35 -0500

        Ian:

        The problem is QuarkXPress, not PostScript. QX makes undocumented calls to
the LaserWriter 8.x (PostScript) driver, and this is the root of your
problem... Not the hardware RIP in your printer.

        Now that Adobe owns PageMaker as well as PostScript, Adobe also tries to
provide whatever competitive advantage it can to its' own page layout app.

        This is quite similar to the "Browser Wars:" M$ IIS servers "break"
Netscape browsers (and vice versa!).

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        In addition, you'll have even more problems RIP'ping Quark files to a
printer (such as a LexMark) that has a PostScript "emulator..." The
buzzword to be wary of is "PostScript interpreter."

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 04:26 PM 11/2/98 -0500, 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.
>
>ian
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dan Schwartz [mailto:expresso@snip.net]
>>Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 3:23 PM
>>To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
>>Subject: RE: [WinMac] Mac printing to HP LaserJet via NT
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian:
>>
>> You are indeed wrong. H-P has been a long-time licensee
>>of Adobe's
>>PostScript Level 2 software. I have a >5 year old LaserJet 4M,
>>PostScript
>>version 2011, that still works flawlessly.
>>
>> Chers!
>> Dan
>>
>>At 11:12 AM 11/2/98 -0500, Ian wrote:
>>>You are seeing a PostScript error, which means that your mac
>>is in fact
>>>seeing the printer. My guess is you're using Quark and
>>trying to print
>>>PostScript level 2 or3. Most HP printers, if they support
>>PostScript at
>>>all, only support level 1.
>>>
>>>If course I could be wrong.

        Yours truly,
        Daniel L. Schwartz,
        Electrical Engineer.

        Dan's Macintosh Consulting
        Suite 1306
        1840 Frontage Road
        Cherry Hill, NJ 08034-2205

        609-795-8965

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