I have now double-checked w/my printer's manufacturer and they said, YES, it was
old and had a PostScript ! emulation =85 hence, it just cannot handle the
contemporary descriptions.
I need to purchase a newer printer would even enjoy PosScript 3 but for the Mac
environment it is waaaay costly. Like $1300+ so I've found a barely used (few
sheets) HP5MP for $625 =85 there are others if anyone is interested.
Thanks for the help everyone
Jack Fulton

Marc Millon wrote:

> Jack Fulton wrote:
>
> New here, perhaps this could be a repetetive query =85 however =85=85=85=85
> I've downloaded some pdf documents. They look good on my screen.
> There is difficulty in printing them. I turn off the font substitution
> and graphics smoothing and printer 1/2-ton defaults. Last night, I got
> one to print that way and it looked the best.
> My printer is 6+ years old, a generic post-script one and I use a Mac
> clone.
> Today, I cannot print, period. Always a post-script error.
> Any ideas to print smoother? Quicker?
> Thankyou in advance
> Jack Fulton
>
> Jack, I too, have intermittent problems with printing pdfs, and am similarly
> using an older Apple laserwriter (Personal LaserWriter NT which is PS). I
> always get the same message too, unable to print due to PostScript error. I
> have tried using different printer drivers (Laserwriter, Laserwriter 8, and
> PSPrinter) and it seems to effect results but also the way that the pages come
> out. PSPrinter, for example, prints pages with print too close to top of page
> and I can't seem to change this, even when altering document top margin
> default. It is very infuriating. Other PDFs I am simply unable to print --
> long documents, for example, sometimes print about 20 pages, then it poops
> out. Perhaps this old printer simply has too puny a memory (2 Mb)?? I'd
> certainly appreciate any advice on this.
>
> TIA
>
> Marc
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> Marc Millon
> Quay Press
> email: marc@quaypress.com
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