NewDeal Technical Support Document 272

Specific Printer Notes, QUME

This document contains notes about using QUME printers with NewDeal software

Note: You must have NewDeal software to use NewDeal print drivers. NewDeal print drivers will not work with other Windows, OS/2, or DOS programs.

QUME CrystalPrint

The Qume CrystalPrint Publisher is a PostScript printer that we initially had problems printing to. A customer was kind enough to let us borrow one for a day, and we've discovered the problem and an easy solution.

Believe it or not, the bug is in the version of the PostScript interpreter (it is non-Adobe) that is in ROM in the printer. The interpreter chokes on a bit of PostScript code that the Adobe reference guide says should be just fine, and which works fine on real Adobe printers.

Our PostScript driver allows for PostScript patch files to fix problems that crop up after we ship the driver. Users that have this printer should create a file called DEVPATCH.PS in their SYSTEM directory. This file should contain the following piece of ASCII text: 

GWDict begin
/CFN {dup 64 string cvs length dup 1 add string /ts xdef string cvs
1 exch ts 3 1 roll putinterval ts 0 (_) putinterval ts cvn} bdef
end
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Last Modified 16 Feb 1999