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LaserWriter Select 310 Software
This chapter describes the LaserWriter Select 310 software.
■It provides an overview of software features, including the Adobe PostScript Programming Language, the PostScript interpreter, the LaserWriter Select 310 driver, and page types.
■It defines the software parameters that enable you to set up and configure the LaserWriter Select 310 printer. They include, system parameters, page device parameters, user parameters, device parameters, communication parameters, engine device, extensions to PostScript Level 1, and the printer error parameter.
■It also explains how to set these parameters.
■It describes changes made to the PostScript language that impact the LaserWriter Select 310 printer including the use of packed arrays, use of immediately evaluated names, changes in the operation of the font cache, new general sampling and halftone techniques, and a different method of handling
Software Overview
This section gives you an overview of the LaserWriter Select 310 software features, including:
■the Adobe PostScript Programming Language
■the PostScript interpreter
■the LaserWriter Select 310 driver
■page types
■product strings
Adobe PostScript Programming Language
The LaserWriter Select 310 printer executes descriptions written in the PostScript language. The version of the PostScript language used has features and capabilities that might not be present in other PostScript output devices. This developer note describes the supplementary PostScript language features of the LaserWriter Select 310 printer. You should use the note in conjunction with the PostScript Language Reference Manual, first edition, published by
PostScript Interpreter
You may access the special features of the LaserWriter Select 310 printer by executing special PostScript operators that exist only in the printer’s interpreter, PostScript interpreter version 52.5.
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