[27268] in Athena Bugs
Re: hexagons go awry on w20color
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Dec 16 23:55:21 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:55:11 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 16 Dec 2008
at 23:51:05 -0500 in <A7184937-EF21-453F-A99F-98AB138C39D6@mit.edu>:
>> So, to be 100% clear, the job worked fine without any duplexing?
>
> Yes.
OK. this is, then, a different problem from the user
I encountered a copytech trying to print with acroread
from the quickstation. Eit.
> Additionally, I should note that in order to facilitate double-sided
> printing, the Copytech staff has been selectively enabling the duplex
> setting on the printer itself, so anyone who goes to test this should
> ensure that is off before testing. (It was in fact on when I printed my
> first simplex job and I was quite confused for a few minutes.)
Yccch. "Sounds like a recipe for disaster."
I think, Jon, step 1 would be to prepend an error handler.
to known bad ps. I wonder why I didn't do that myself [oh, right,
because we were trying to work around the problem, not debug it.]
--jhawk
