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- From: lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay)
- Subject: Re: Help! Need to print to edge of page via Mac PS...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.171401.21772@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:14:01 GMT
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- > keitru1@netcom.com (Keith Trussell) writes:
- > : I'm trying to print "bleed tabs" on a document, and using FrameMaker,
- > : Word, and even Freehand, I'm running into the problem of there being a
- > : boundary of about a quarter inch from the edge of the page beyond which
- > : I can't print. Is there a hack to the print driver (7.1.2) or Laser
- > : Prep to allow me to print to the very edge of the page on a sutably
- > : equipped printer?
-
- The boundary problem you're seeing may be a hardware limitation, not a
- software one. I know all the apple laserwriters I've dealt with had
- the quarter inch edge, and there was absolutely nothing you could do about
- it in software. The laserwriter uses that edge to pull the paper through
- the printer.
-
- If you've got a printer without this limitation (some Xerox OEM'ed printers
- use the *top* edge instead), and the mac is still ignoring the edges,
- then you've got a problem. :)
-
- I believe your printer hardware manual should have something in the
- specifications which tells oyu the maximum imageable area of the printer
- (i.e. how much of the page you can fill up).
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