iQueue problems and OSX printing
iQueue problems and OSX printing
- Subject: iQueue problems and OSX printing
- From: Roberto Michelena <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:08:30 -0500
Second iQueue installation, and second nightmare.
Setup:
iMac G3, OS 9.x, 384Mb ram, iQueue 120 v1.1
Device to be calibrated: Tektronix Phaser 780
First problem (this is with OS X not with iQueue):
I was planning to share iQueue's Input folder, and then create "translator"
desktop printers, which just save postscript to that shared folder (from all
workstations).
This is how it's done in OS 9.x workstations, but in OS X I have found no
way to create a printer that will just write postcript files to a folder.
So I resorted to a nice freeware utility I had fortunately saved, because
it's been long ago pulled from the web: "PrintDesk Lite", which will publish
(from the iMac) an appletalk printer queue and write the print jobs received
to a folder (iQueue's input folder).
Of course being pure Appletalk the speed leaves something to be desired... I
would still prefer to get OSX to write postscript into the folder.
For output to the Phaser 780, I use another freeware, Drop-PS, and select it
as a "hot launch application" in iQueue's output setup.
So it receives the output postscript file from iQueue and sends it to the
printer. Again, pure Appletalk, quite slow. No better ideas here...
Second problem: iQueue's postscript errors
I am getting a lot of these!!
What interpreter do they have inside the beast?
I am not willing to add even one more hack to the workflow, such as
distilling and re-exporting to ps...
questions: is iQueue PPD-sensitive? When generating the postscript (or
printing), should I use a "generic" PPD instead of the destination printer
(Tektronix Phaser 780) PPD? But then I would lose all the output control
options... (such as tray and paper sizes).
If iQueue will choke on so many jobs, jobs that the printer gladly prints
when sent directly to it, then it's more of a hindrance than an
improvement...
Any other options that work better for postscript-to-postscript color
management, even if they require a Windows server?
-- Roberto Michelena
EOS S.A.
Lima, Peru
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