Printing problems solved (partly)

[Erwin Pönitz]

Hi Larry,

your suggestion did indeed help, and there is no noticable
drop in printing speed, I even feel printing is faster now.
I can't even blame Microsoft, as the explanation says
"Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster."
and not "printing is faster". The program may finish printing
faster but elsewhere trouble is created.

Thank your very much indeed, you have saved me hours of frustration.

Erwin Poenitz


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Larry Tseng
  To: Techsupport at yandy.com
  Sent: Dienstag, 23. September 2003 21:31
  Subject: Re: Printing problems


  Erwin P=F6nitz writes:

  > When I print directly via DVIPSONE everything works fine, exept the
  spooling file
  > on the printer server grows until available disk space is 0.

  Have you tried turning off the spooler on NT 4.0?

  This might work if the printer is connected directly to your computer:
  first, open the printer's properties dialog box. Click on the Scheduling
  tab. Select "Print directly to the printer" as opposed to "Spool print
  documents so program finishes printing faster."

  Hope this helps.

  Larry Tseng
  www.tsengbooks.com

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Erwin P=F6nitz
  To: Techsupport at yandy.com
  Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:40 AM
  Subject: Printing problems


  Hello TeX wizards,

  I have large quantities of scanned material in my documents. When creating a
  PS file the size is close to 2 GB.

  When I print directly via DVIPSONE everything works fine, exept the spooling
  file on the printer server grows until available disk space is 0. Then the
  printing stops. This means splitting up the printing process into several
  junks and hoping the spooling file will not outgrow the available disk space
  of some 500 MB on the limited C disk. This takes time and is annoying.

  Second option: I convert the PS file into a PDF file via Acrobat Destiller
  4.05. The size of the original PS file is about reduced to one thenth in the
  PDF file. When printing the PDF file the first page containing a tiff image
  prints fine, the following text page also, the next page containing again a
  tiff image will not print exept for the top and left line of the frame of
  the picture. Then the printer prints following error message:

  ERROR: undefinedresult
  OFFENDING COMMAND: div

  STACK:
  0.0
  0.0
  -filestream-
  -filestream-
  -mark-
  -savelevel-
  -savelevel-

  I use YANDY TeX 2.2 on NT 4.0 and an up to date HP-Laserjet. Drivers have
  been updated. Adobe Destiller is V 4.05. HP-printer driver and Adobe printer
  driver behave exactly the same. Switching PS-level has no effect.

  I looked at the switches of DVIPSONE without getting a glue.

  Maybe someone has run into similar problems and has found a solution?

  I am very happy the support group exists so there is an option when you get
  stuck. Many thanks for your effort which is really appreciated.

  Regards

  Erwin
  Vienna, Austria