How Can I turn off the Startup page on my laserwriter 12/640PS?

[Axel Luttgens]

On 6/04/07 21:06, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> For some reason my 12/640 insists on printing the startup page
> whenever the printer is powered on...
>
> I don't appear to have anyway to turn the rascal back off...
>
> I googled around and found in a postscript faq that something
> like:
>
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> serverdict begin 0
> exitserver statusdict begin false setdostartpage end
>
> might do the job.


Damn! People who managed to get some info about of the internals of 
Apple's (marvelous - really) postscript printers...
Do you have some link to share?

> I sent the above to the printer ( via enscript -Z ).
>
> Lights flashed but powering the print down and up caused
> the startup page to be printed...
>
> I don't seem to have any software that lets me control
> this aspect of the printer ( trying to start "classic"
> from the control panel fails).


 From which box?
An Intel one?
Because, if a PPC one, this should work, a could even be the way to 
solve your problem (see below).

> Any suggestions?

Do you still have a Mac OS 9 (or 8 or 7.6) capable box around?
Because the LaserWriter Utility looks like the most reliable way to go...

HTH,
Axel