savin 9021d installing post script

[clark]

I need to install postscript. I know its on a sd card. I see 2 slots. top has fax option and lower card just has a numbers on the card. can I just replace the fax card ?
thanks for the help.

[sandmanmac]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

I need to install postscript. I know its on a sd card. I see 2 slots. top has fax option and lower card just has a numbers on the card. can I just replace the fax card ?
thanks for the help.

Yes, if you don't require the fax option.
If you do, then the process becomes more complicated

[zed255]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Merge applications if required. On older products applications needed to be merged to the Postscript card, on newer products it does not matter which direction merging is done.

[clark]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Thank you for the help.I will order part.

[slimslob]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

A word of advice, it the card in the bottom slot is a JAVA card, you must stop the JAVA application in User Tools before removing it to merge the other 2 cards. If you don't, you risk having a toasted JAVA card and control board. Rather expensive mistake.

[copier tech]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Out of interest why would a MAC user need to print to this old b/w machine!?

[fshead]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Some people just love MACS...........Swear by them..........I have lawyers who use them and
what graphix application would they even need...

[slimslob]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Out of interest why would a MAC user need to print to this old b/w machine!?

Some people just love MACS...........Swear by them..........I have lawyers who use them and
what graphix application would they even need...

Not necessarily a MAC user. There small regional hospitals that have information systems that require PostScript printers. Not all of them can afford to replace printers when they fail.

[KenB]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Not necessarily a MAC user. There small regional hospitals that have information systems that require PostScript printers. Not all of them can afford to replace printers when they fail.

Quite true!

There are a ton of possible reasons as to why PostScript is required, other then Macs being involved.


Not related, but here is a pet peeve of mine:

I see "Macintosh" abbreviated incorrectly as "MAC" on CTN almost daily.

A Macintosh (Apple) computer is referred to as a "Mac" (short for "Macintosh"). Only the "M" gets capitalized.

"MAC", on the other hand (all caps) is an acronym for "Media Access Control" (as in a "MAC address"), which is a networking term.

From Wikipedia: MAC address - Wikipedia

Rant over.

[slimslob]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Quite true!

There are a ton of possible reasons as to why PostScript is required, other then Macs being involved.


Not related, but here is a pet peeve of mine:

I see "Macintosh" abbreviated incorrectly as "MAC" on CTN almost daily.

A Macintosh (Apple) computer is referred to as a "Mac" (short for "Macintosh"). Only the "M" gets capitalized.

"MAC", on the other hand (all caps) is an acronym for "Media Access Control" (as in a "MAC address"), which is a networking term.

From Wikipedia: MAC address - Wikipedia

Rant over.

It also stands for Machine Address Code which is the term I have always heard. MAC address has always sounded redundant to me.

[KenB]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

It also stands for Machine Address Code which is the term I have always heard. MAC address has always sounded redundant to me.

I like that definition better, too!

When I took my Net+ training back in 2011, it was Media Access Control then, at least in the course materials we used.

[copier tech]

[KenB]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Linux and UNIX pretty much only do PostScript, too. VERY little PCL.

I remember a few years ago, there was a Konica Minolta Fiery that was PostScript only, and offered PCL as an option. That was a Color MFP.

Going back almost 20 years, the Canon iR600 (and the printer only version, the iR60) were PostScript only with the early version. Those were B&W, with embedded Fiery controllers. I think version 2.x gave it PCL.

[copier tech]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

Linux and UNIX pretty much only do PostScript, too. VERY little PCL.

I remember a few years ago, there was a Konica Minolta Fiery that was PostScript only, and offered PCL as an option. That was a Color MFP.

Going back almost 20 years, the Canon iR600 (and the printer only version, the iR60) were PostScript only with the early version. Those were B&W, with embedded Fiery controllers. I think version 2.x gave it PCL.

A lot has changed in this industry over 20 years!

[KenB]

Re: savin 9021d installing post script

A lot has changed in this industry over 20 years!

Quite true, but PostScript isn't going away any time soon.

It can do things that PCL (including version 6) simply can't.