Print Services For Macintosh

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Paul

Hi

I am having trouble setting up the "Print Services For
Macintosh" on our windows 2000 print server, which has SP3
and 60+ other network printers, installed on it.

I have installed the service and created a printer using
AppleTalk but I get problems setting up the printers on
the clients. They can see the printers and connect to
them, and I have had success printing using Mac OS 9 + X
but sometimes you get a printout with a postscript error
printed on the page.

%%[Error: Syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval--]%%
%%[Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored]%
%

I have done some searching myself and I have come up with
the following, which I wasn't sure if it was true and if
it was is there a way round it?

"If you Print Services for Macintosh occasionally fails to
work, your Macintosh clients may be sending a Postscript
level-two print job to a PCL print queue.

PCL print queues only accept PostScript level one or PCL
print jobs from Macintosh clients.

Postscript level-two print jobs can be sent to a
PostScript print queue because Windows NT just passes the
job to the printer without altering it. As where a Windows
2000 Print server with Print services for Macintosh users
true image to convert postscript level-one jobs to PCL for
a PCL print queue."

So if there's any help or suggestions you could give me on
this problem it would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Paul
 
Basically, print services for macintosh is flawed, especially from high-end
page-layout programs like Quark. I usually end up having Mac people print
directly to the printer.
 
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