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When I sent the
postscript files to Fayetteville printing for the Georgia Certification, I used
the Xeikon DCP/50D driver. The
reason I used this instead of the Linotronic driver, is because Lee Green said
he has had problems with the Linotronic driver. I am not sure if it is actually the driver or the printer
doing the job. I talked with Jane,
who has sent postscript files to Fayetteville printing, and she said that she used
the Linotronic driver for Gaston, NC ballots and had no problem the first time
with them, but the second time she had to use the Xeikon driver because they
had problems. Just a FYI about
Fayetteville printing. Jeff
Hintz Global Election
Systems -----Original
Message----- The
trouble she is having cannot be fixed by adjusting the offsets. The ballot image is rotated to a
landscape orientation whether she chooses Portrait or Landscape in the printer
properties. The effect of this is
that the ballot image is cut off because the long dimension of the ballot image
is on the short dimension of the paper.
It is conceivable that she could use a paper size with a width greater
than 11" (if her print driver supports it - I'm not sure) and adjust the
offsets IF she is only ever going to use 11" ballots, but she will be
using 14" ballots for November elections. Adjusting the offsets is not a viable long-term
solution. The driver she is using
is specific to the equipment that her print shop uses to output the postscript
files. Other drivers have been
tested and all failed. I
am conducting a campaign to get Iredell to use a different print shop (such as
Fayetteville printing) instead of the rinky-dink local printer they have been
using. Difficulties are
encountered every time Iredell sends ballot artwork to their local print
shop. I would appreciate the
support of anyone involved with support in Iredell County in my efforts to get
them with a reliable print shop.
Becky is warming to the idea a bit because of the ongoing difficulties,
although her Elections Board is reluctant to change. As a result of the problems they've been having and the
tight turnaround in preparation for the May 30 runoff, she is sending
laser-printed copies of her ballot images to her local printer who will use
them as camera-ready artwork. This
is completely non-standard, unacceptable, and fraught with peril for
Global. We should all be making
every effort to get Iredell to change printers. I
agree that it would be a good thing to have Ghostview loaded onto her
computer. I have already sent
Becky a disk with lino.zip on it which she should receive today, whereupon I
will assist her in installing the Linotronic 630 V 3.3 J GES driver. This is the driver that is used to send
artwork to Fayetteville printing. Tyler -----Original
Message----- Becky
Galliher from Iredell County, NC is having trouble with her postscript files
that she sends to her printer. I
have taken a look at a sample postscript file in GhostView and I can see that
she needs to change the offsets with this particular Postscript Driver that she
has. The only problem is that the
computer that was set up in McKinney with Gems, does not have GhostView on
it. Also, she does not have the
Gems computer set up for the internet.
Would it be possible for someone in McKinney to burn her a CD with
GhostView on it, and could we also put on the same CD the different Postscript
drivers that we have on our FTP site.
It may be possible that with one of the Postscript drivers that we have
on the FTP site, that her printer will be able to accept the files with the
default offsets. Thanks, Jeff Hintz Global
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