Re: [WinMac] Re: best way win can print to LaserWriter 16/600?

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:26:19 -0500

Michael Bartosh wrote:
>
> > Dear Michael,
> >
> > Ahhh, you should have been to MacWorld! :)
> >
> > This very issue came up in our (Leonard, JoeMac, John & me)
> >Professional
> >conference. Essentially what you need to keep in mind is that LPR is
> >essentially one way; and that it doesn't care for PostScript®
> >bidirectionality too well. Printing to a PostScript printer over a network
> >from a PC just doesn't work well at all... Stick to a parallel port
> >connection.
>
> I am aware that windows does not like postscript all to well. To say
> the least. ;-)
>

Bruce looks in his Printers control panel at the 5 printers in there that are
postscript, out of 6 total, all on the network, and wonders what all the fuss
is about? No LaserWriters (that I use) but HP's and Xerox printers. (That 6th
printer is a venerable 5 year old HP IIID that just started weird grinding
noises...I think it's dead, Jim)

I've heard "Windows doesn't do Postscript" before on this list, and actually
I'm wondering what I'm missing; I very rarely have a problem printing, and in
the past those problems have all been traceable either to Netscape (which has
printing problems all of it's own) or flaky network interfaces on the
printers. Also, others on the network don't have these problems printing
either; as the help desk, we hear about these kinds of things. Plus, we have
to replace the comnsumables in these printers...they print a _lot_ of pages
per month.

OTOH, we avoid the Windows supplied driver like the plague and use Adobe's
driver, but still, either printing with acits LPR driver or as LPR queues
through our NT server, I've not seen these kinds of problems. Nor have I sen
them on my Mac or the ones in the building here, and since we're not running
SFM, all the macs are using LW 8's desktop printing via LPR, and they print
just fine.

The only reason most people in the College have their own printers is that
they're too lazy to walk to the networked printers. This is understandable,
since in some cases those networked printers are two floors away :-/

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