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NEC Silentwriter Model 95 Switches Between Po
DocumentID: 637519
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:04:38 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer has the NEC Silentwriter Model 95 which was not supported in WP until 04/24/92. He has selected the NEC Silentwriter 2 Model 90 as the emulation. The Model 95 printer is one of those new "PostScript II" printers that has the ability to switch between PostScript and PCL modes on-the-fly.

The Model 90 driver has no soft font support built into it, so he used an Adobe font installer utility to add support for the Adobe Typeface Library #1. When he marks his fonts with an asterisk, and then initializes, WP downloads everything successfully, but the printer switches to its HP PCL5 mode, and prints a page of PostScript Language. Solutions: PostScript printers that Auto Switch between PCL and PostScript that are running a printer control program received from the printer manufacturer may have a problem downloading fonts.

This is the correct string "%!PS-Adobe" that must to sent to inform the printer that the information is for PostScript mode. WP does not send this when fonts are downloaded.

As a temporary workaround, do the following if you have printer driver dates prior to 04/24/92:
1.      Enter PTR
2.      Retrieve the PostScript printer driver
3.      Press Alt-F8 to go to Global String Variables
4.      Go to Initialize and press Enter then Ctrl-Enter to edit
5.      Add "%!PS-Adobe" to the variable. This should be the very first line of the variable. (Note: This will look like the first line of the prologue.)
6.      Exit, save and update in WP.

This will work for any PostScript printer that is having a problem downloading fonts.

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