[OS X TeX] Problem with Printing

[Marcus Michalsky]

Well, maybe.

But how do you explain, that on my PowerBook with MAC OS X 10.3.9  
Panther everything works GREAT !??!

MfG
Marcus

On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:51 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 15.11.2005 um 23:11 schrieb Marcus Michalsky:
>
>> I am sorry to say this, but on the Windoof Machine from my Dad  
>> with MikTeX and EPSON driver it works fine (maybe the only one  
>> thing I've ever seen working on this old prehistoric thing :-)
>>
>
> The castrated printer was invented by Steve Jobs for the NeXT Cube,  
> then cloned by Sun as the SPARCprinter -- and finally came MS too.
>
> Apple does not really support these printers, they're relying on  
> the CUPS software. It's efficient, it knows USB, serial, parallel,  
> Ethernet, but it surely can't serve dozens of different non- 
> standard printers (the laser printers are this kind, since they're  
> not ESC/P2, and some have no HP PCL) with proprietary raster data  
> formats. So CUPS does a bad job. And so it's a brilliant idea to  
> get the manufacturer's driver.
>
> Preview does no tricks. It relies completely on the system, i.e.  
> CUPS. Adobe Reader first tries to substitute unavailable fonts with  
> those from inside its application bundle, and surely it knows and  
> uses some tricks for printing! Take a deeper look at its printing  
> dialog. So it's no wonder that you see two different results on the  
> printer.
>
> --
> Mit friedvollen Grüßen
>
>   Pete
>
> Hupende Autos beißen nicht.
>
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