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Printing from an IBM compatible file requires some advance preparation. Before going to OIT, a formatted version of the text to be printed must be created. Several of the leading word processors offer this as an option, usually called 'Create a Print File'. Preferable to a regular formatted file is a Postcript file which can be made with Microsoft Word or another Postcript compatible word processor...
...file can then be printed on the laserwriter via the MacBridge program (the MacBridge disk is kept next to OIT's IBM PCs). Once the MacBridge program is run, it will ask for the name and type of the file to be sent to the laserwriter. Type refers to whether the file is Postcript or straight text (ASCII) format...
...addition to the special software, you'll need some spending money to print at OIT. Each page costs 15 cents, but you'll have to buy a vendacard for $10 or $20 through a machine; of course the unused portion can always be refunded...
...guardian angel of the OIT terminal room is the photocopying machine--one of the last at Harvard that works for 5 cents per page. Naturally it works off vendastrips, the same as you would use in the laserwriter...
...support staff only occupies the OIT office from 9 to 4:30 p.m. But heaven/the OIT terminal room is 24 hour accessible with the $1 purchase of a key from OIT's second floor library...