In article <f19d2b4a-40b2-46e0-ba6f-87bb53f58a5d@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 24, 1:11 am, isw <i...@witzend.com> wrote: > > In article <1ikk44j.wsbrcy1oiemn9N%al...@alussinan.org>, > > > > al...@alussinan.org (Alain191) wrote: > > > DJW <d...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I have a Apple Personal Laser 320 printer. How do I stop the test page > > > > that is printed every time I turn the unit on? I once had stopped it > > > > with using some utility. And does it matter if the computer is booted > > > > up before I turn (plug in) the printer on. It has no on and off switch > > > > and I hardly every print with it so to save energy I unplug it. > > > > > With systems before mas OS X a soft "laser printer utility" offers this > > > choice, with mac OS X, I dont know. > > > > > Find an older mac with an older system and force this choice, it remains > > > in the printer memory. > > > > I had a LW 360 that couldn't be stopped from printing that page. In the > > process of attempting to get it to stop, I tried a lot of things, > > including a snippet of Postscript that was supposed to stop it -- but > > did not. I have long since lost that snippet, but you might be able to > > google for it. > > > > Isaac > > Not quite sure what you mean by a snippet? And how the printer gets > it. Is it a one-time thing? What words should I search google with?
A few lines -- maybe three or four.
It will start with the Postscript identifier "%!" (without the quotes), and you can't just print it; you have to use an app that will send a Postscript file. On older Mac systems, I would use BBEdit, which had a "Send Postscript" command.
Again using pre-OS X systems, the Apple Laserwriter Utility (may not be the correct name) had a command for turning the test page on and off.
And as a last resort, you can probably do what we finally started doing with that LW 360 -- pull the paper tray out whenever you turn the printer on. After three or four minutes, it won't print the test page when you shove it in again.
