This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Quick Postscript Printing Hack
Article: 7568 of alt.hackers From: Justin Fidler <justin@reznor.pc.cc.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Quick Postscript Printing Hack Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 12:57:09 EST Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 Approved: justin@reznor.pc.cc.cmu.edu Message-ID: 9503312102.AA0863@reznor.pc.cc.cmu.edu Reply-To: justin+@cmu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: po8.andrew.cmu.edu Status: RO
ObPostscriptPrintingHack: The scenario: Me with my MS Word 6/Win document with 2 large graphics in it. The problem: The Apple Laserwriters that are available to Netware users are incredibly slow, and there aren't too many of them. As a result, it will take at least 15 minutes per graphics page, while I have to worry about everyone else in the lab getting pissed because their stuff isn't printing out. The hack: There was a HP Laserjet IVsi Postscript that's a lot faster. Unfortunately, it's a kerberized unix printer. So, I reconfigure the Apple Laserwriter driver in word for win to print to a file. Then I ftp it to a kerberized unix box (in the /tmp directory, because I don't have the quota for a 4-meg postscript file). Next I logon to the same box, and queue it up to the Laserjet IV. By the time I get to the lab with the IVsi, it's almost done (and in 600dpi too!). Justin