Re: GS, Atalk, DeskJet 1600CM

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dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:
>Well, y'know, that's what I thought.  But a couple of months ago, I hauled
>my trusty GS to the office to do some printing on that very same network,
>but when I tried to drive the DeskJet with the LaserWriter driver that
>shipped with 6.0.1, all I got was a PostScript error message.  I ended up
>printing to an overworked, dying, and about to be put to pasture
>LaserWriter IINTX.  That one worked OK, but there is a problem with that
>particular LaserWriter that no one has yet been able to solve (after
>replacing the logic board, the print engine, the toner cartridge assembly,
>the drive motors, the transport...just about everything but the @$^! case).
>
>So obviously there is some kind of problem with the 6.0.1 LaserWriter
>driver...either the Apple printer is more forgiving than the HP printer,
>or they speak different PostScript versions, or some such nonsense, so
>that the GS prints just fine to the LaserWriter, but not to the DeskJet.
>(don't printer manufacturers believe in using spaces?  Too many ProDOS and
>MS-DOS filenames, I guess...).
>
>So I ask again:  Is there an HP printer driver out there for the GS?  8-)
>
>]Dave Althoff, ][.

Believe it or not, the 6.0.1 LW driver has some problems.  It
does not like as many Postscript printers as the older 5.0.4
driver (one of the A2 magazines noted this when they were testing
laser printers).

Try using the 5.0.4 driver (manually installed in System 6.0.1)
and see what happens.

-Scott G.