Microsoft KB Archive/46861

PostScript Printer Password

PSS ID Number: Q46861 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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= SUMMARY =

PostScript allows the use of a password to prevent those using a printer from changing the permanent state of the printer. This feature is sometimes used in a network environment in which multiple users are printing to the same PostScript printer.

Because Word’s .INI file changes the permanent state of the printer, this feature may not be used in cases in which the password has been changed by the printer operator. The password appears in the line that starts with “serverdict” (see example below).

To change the .INI so that it does not change the permanent state of the printer, comment out the first three lines that do not start with a percent sign (%) by putting a percent sign at the front of each of the three lines shown below. The percent sign tells the PostScript printer that a line is a comment.

Comment the following three lines at the top of the POSTSCRP.INI:

userdict /msinifile known {msinifile (POSTSCRP) eq {stop} if} if serverdict begin 0 exitserver

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