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Thesis printer not printing out PostScript files created by LaTeX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wchuang@MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 30 12:15:41 1995
From: wchuang@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 12:15:36 -0400
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Hi!
We (the Athena Consultants) have gotten two reports so far from users
who had printed their theses to files, and then tried to use "lpr" to
send the resulting PostScript files to the "thesis" printer. They tried
the following:
1) latex'd their thesis
2) printed their thesis to a file with either:
dvips -o /usr/tmp/foo.ps main.dvi
or
dvips -h duplex -o /usr/tmp/foo.ps main.dvi
3) then printed foo.ps to thesis2 or thesis,
respectively
The thesis printer only printed out the header page. However, when they
tried printing to any normal cluster printers, everything came out
correctly (with the same sequence of steps). The PostScript files
weren't very large (2Mb and 4Mb respectively, which should definitely
not cause a problem). Any ideas on this one? Eventually I took them to
another printer which I loaded with archival bond paper so they could
print out their theses.
-William
