Subject: Postscript errors fro atalk
From: Richard Goldberg (rickg@yorku.ca)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 08:52:57 EST
Hi all,
Running netatalk on a solaris 7 macine with a lexmark C710 colour laser
printer.
Quite a few print jobs with colour images fail and give a postscript
error of:
ERROR: typecheck
OFFENDING COMMAND: colorimage
...
If I enable appletalk on the printer and print directly to it, the job
prints fine.
Now to complicate things further... If I select the atalk printer and
select print to file. And then print the resulting postscript file from
the unix command line, it works fine. But if I configure an atalk
printer that just writes the job to a file (does not print it):
Test Printer:\
:pr=|cat > /tmp/print:\
:op=lp:\
:pd=/etc/atalk/ppd/lexmark_optrac710.ppd:
and print the resulting file from the unix command line, I get the same
postscript error as above.
I found some web pages that say this error could be cases by sending a
postscript level 2 file to a level 1 printer. But the C710 is a level 3
printer, so there should be no problem.
So my first question would be, does anyone have any ideas?
But failing that, could some one explain (or point me to some docs) how
a print jobs gets printed over atalk vs direct to the printer?
I know there is a ppd file on each mac, one on the atalk server, when
does each get used, what do they do, what is different about atalk...
Thanks.
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