Re: [WinMac] Downloading fonts through a print server
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Downloading fonts through a print server
From: Bruce Johnson (johnson[at]pharmacy.arizona.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 12:48:38 EST
Romeyn Prescott wrote:
> We've been having trouble this semester with some graphics class
> students printing their work.
>
> Jobs from our labs/classrooms are metered and processed through an NT
> print server.
>
> I've narrowed the problem down to this: If a job involves downloading a
> font from a Mac to the printer because the printer doesn't already have
> the font, the job results in the printer spewing reams (literally) of
> crap; gobbledegook on a single line at the top of the page.
>
> Printing directly to the printer works just fine.
>
> Is there ay way around this that still will allow the use of an
> intermediary print server?
>
> ...ROMeyn
Sure sounds like there's a Postscript print job being sent on a PCL
print queue to me.
(we got that one time when one of our users managed to point output from
their dot-matrix printer to one of our networked printers....1500 pages
with one or two characters on each page.)
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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