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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
Subject: Re: Cap/Kip
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Date: 11 Apr 91 22:29:51 GMT
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In article <4!fgxhj@rpi.edu> Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu 
           (that's me...) writes:
  ...(first I quote someone else commenting on problems printing
      to non-NeXT printers, and then I say)...

>It should be noted that the problem with NeXT 2.0 and printing to non-NeXT
>systems is readily fixable.  Just open a terminal window and enter the
command:
>
>   dwrite System PrinterResolution 1
>
>Note: Even after applying this workaround, you won't be able to print to
>non-NeXT printers from the PrintManager application.  Also, if you're logged
in
>as root you won't be able to print to non-NeXT printers from some applications
>(for example, Digital Librarian).  There is no workaround for these cases.
>
>If after using this workaround you subsequently print to a non-NeXT printer,
>the default resolution is reset and you cannot successfully print to non-NeXT
>hosts until you perform the workaround again.

I got a phone call while writing the above, and didn't realize I had sent it
off without mentioning where I got the info from.  Most of the above text comes
verbatim from something called "NeXT Technical Alert 90-2", which I believe
came out from NeXT a few months ago.  I got this from our Product Center here
at RPI, but I'm not sure how NeXT technical notes are distributed to NeXT
owners.  This happened to get to me the exact same day I was going nuts trying
to figure out why my printing wasn't working, so in my case it was excellent
timing!   (I got it just about two weeks ago, after getting my NeXT three weeks
ago)

Please don't ask me how it works, I don't have enough NeXT knowledge to come up
with fixes like this!

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
  = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu for Next-Mail

