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Lee Green at
Fayetteville Printing had some success opening ballot postscript files that had
been created using the Xeikon driver. I
think Jeff Hintz sent Lee some files that had been created using the Xeikon
driver on a lark and Lee found he could open them and output the files. In the end, it was found to be a somewhat
unreliable process, so for now we have gone back to using the Linotronic 630
driver. -----Original
Message----- The Xeikon
driver is only for the Xeikon color laser printer used by Spectrum. I
wouldn't expect it to work with anything else. -----
Original Message -----
To: support@gesn.com Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 9:56 AM Subject: RE: Iredell County, NC - Needs Ghostview
on Gems Computer 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 Election Systems |