Printing problems solved (partly)

[Larry Tseng]

Hello Erwin,

I am happy to hear that the suggestion worked for you. Thanks for =
letting us know.

Best regards, Larry

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Erwin P=F6nitz
  To: Techsupport at yandy.com
  Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:51 AM
  Subject: Re: Printing problems solved (partly)


  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