Re: [WinMac] Downloading fonts through a print server

Subject: Re: [WinMac] Downloading fonts through a print server
From: msheppar (msheppard[at]ONLINE.EMICH.EDU)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 11:00:22 EST

Most printers have, buried somewhere in their printer configuration, a
setting that allows the user to force the print device to use the host
fonts, whether the print device recognizes them or not. The best solution
I found though, is to purchase a copy of Adobe Acrobat for each machine.
Saving a large file out to pdf is a dream come true for graphics labs. At
EMU we have a Production Lab with one Xerox Laser printer and one HP
2500CP large plotter. Printing to these devices from anyone of 6 desktop
publishing applications was a nightmare. Fonts were dropped, large
projects took forever and often were corrupt in the transfer- all in all a
pain. With PDF you can encode the project with ZIP compression making it
print faster and embed the fonts, this avoids all those PS translation
problems.
Michael Sheppard
Manager ICT Multimedia Systems
Eastern Michigan University

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, 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
> --
>
>
> signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.htm
> -
> What a signat-url is and why you should use one:
> http://www2.potsdam.edu/DCTM/prescor/signat-url_defined.htm
>
>
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