On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Brian Powell wrote:

> Thanks to netatalk, I can breathe more life into the personal laserwriter
> nt.  I hooked it up to my linux box via the serial port.  I then installed
> netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6.rpm and configured two printers in my
> /etc/printcap:

[...snip...]

> Started up netatalk and everything is fine until I use Photoshop or
> Illustrator.  When I print from these two programs, the job is sent to the
> linux box, and the printer blinks for a tremendously long time before just
> stopping as though the print job was completed.
> 
> I saw mention on the archives of a filter back in 1998.  Does anyone know
> what it takes to get Adobe products to print to my Laserwriter NT properly
> (via netatalk).  For what it is worth, I don't even have any localtalk
> capable mac's hence the need for the netatalk bridge.

Have you tried setting your mac to print in "ascii" mode instead of
binary?  This should be an option when you attempt to print from Photoshop
or Illustrator.

        Andy

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