PostScript printer on network-nothing prints

Question

We attached the PostScript printer to our network but nothing prints. What's wrong?

Answer

  If you try to print an ASCII file created by DCF directly to the PostScript
  printer it is not in an ASCII format the interpreter can process.  The
  PostScript produced by DCF relies on the file transfer process to create a
  printer-ready file.

  When you run the output through a network to the printer, the header
  records required to inform the printer that this is a PostScript file are
  not in a format the printer can understand, so the file never prints.

  Note:  This is not a LAN, but a network connection at the host. Some
  network boxes do a translation on the file, even when they say they don't.

Last updated: 93/08/24 16:32:44