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PostScript error when printing

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Name: Sandra Waugh
Date: September 9, 2000 at 13:36:04 Pacific
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I have a LaserWriter Pro 630 connected to
my Lombard PowerBook and to a
Graphite iMac via an ethernet hub. Most of
the time it is great. Occaisionally, I run
into a pdf file that will not print. I get an
error message that says "The file cannot
be printed. A Postscript error has
occurred." Sometimes it prints on the
retrty. Somethimes it not only does not
print, but the printer becomes
disconnected from the computer (it no
longer appears in the Chooser.) Then I
have to turn the printer off and then back
on, wait for it to print the start-up page,
and try again. This last time I was printing
a tutorial for Pixels3D, and the file had
lots of diagrams and screenshots. But
one of the pages causing problems had
only text.

Any ideas as to what causes these
errors, and more importantly , how to stop
them so the file will print? I have an
Epson 740, which did not have any
problem printing the same file.

400 MHz PowerBook, 384 MB RAM, OS
9.0.4, Adobe Acrobat 4.0.5.

On the advice of another site, I
downloaded the PS 8.7 driver, installed,
restarted. It appears in the Chooser. I
Chose it, closed the chooser window,
opened up one of the problematic pdf
files, asked it to print.
The file spools, the page icon appears on
the new Adobe desktop printer icon. The
green light flashed a few times on the
printer, which normally means it is getting
data to be printed, and then nothing
happened. No error message, nothing
printed. The file disappeared from the
desktop printer window (from double
clicking onthe desktop printer icon.) I tried
to print a second time, after checking that
the printer was still appearing in the
Chooser, with the same results, only now
the computer has "lost" the printer. It no
longer appears in the Chooser. It
appears to be doing the exact same
behavior as with the Apple driver 8, except
I don`t get the error message.

Help!



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