Re: [WinMac] Downloading fonts through a print server

Subject: Re: [WinMac] Downloading fonts through a print server
From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 15:45:53 EST

I don't think this is a fonts problem but rather the print not
recognizing the file format protocol as being PostScript. Bruce said
something about that. Look at the print queue configuration.

> msheppard@ONLINE.EMICH.EDU wrote:
>
> 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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