Printing problems

[Larry Tseng]

Erwin Pönitz 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 Pönitz
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