Postscript errors

I've owned two postscript printers now,and both have occasional errors
like this one, which was generated when I was trying to print a PDF
with Adobe Acrobat (not the reader).

ERROR: typecheck
OFFENDING COMMAND: restore

STACK:

-dictionary-
-savelevel-
-savelevel-
-savelevel-

What causes these errors? Would adding memory to the printer help?
The printer manual doesn't cover this kind of error.

These errors seemed to happen when I was printing a page with Windows
screenshots. Funny thing is that other pages with similar graphics
printed just fine, but certain pages would always generate these
errors. If it matters, the printer was set to do two-sided printing
for this one PDF.

The printer is a Samsung 2152W, but I had similar problems when I
owned a QMS-810 PS (great old printer, but it just wore out.) Can
somebody enlighten me?

AH

Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90900@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've owned two postscript printers now,and both have occasional errors
> like this one, which was generated when I was trying to print a PDF
> with Adobe Acrobat (not the reader).
>
> ERROR: typecheck
> OFFENDING COMMAND: restore
>
> STACK:
>
> -dictionary-
> -savelevel-
> -savelevel-
> -savelevel-
>
> What causes these errors?

Don't know for sure, but I'll make some guesses below. Try them one at
a time, and change settings back if they don't fix it.

> Would adding memory to the printer help?

Stock memory on a Samsung 2152W is 16M, so probably not. But try
printing at a lower resolution to see.

> These errors seemed to happen when I was printing a page with Windows
> screenshots. Funny thing is that other pages with similar graphics
> printed just fine, but certain pages would always generate these
> errors. If it matters, the printer was set to do two-sided printing
> for this one PDF.

I haven't used Acrobat, but the Reader can be set to produce PostScript
Level 2 or 3. Try the other one.

For that matter, Acrobat might just be sending the PDF to the printer
directly; some Level 3 printers can print PDFs. Try the Reader.

Re-rendering the PDFs with Ghostscript might make them more compatible.

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