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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: SCO Unix : HELP WITH HP PRINTERS:
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:17:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.161728.19841@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Nov5.182123.6204@cs.wayne.edu> <1992Nov9.024735.24958@bilver.uucp>
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- In <1992Nov9.024735.24958@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
-
- :In article <1992Nov5.182123.6204@cs.wayne.edu> mikeg@rocdec.roc.wayne.edu (Michael George) writes:
- :>If anyone out there is running SCO UNIX with a HP Laserjet as your
- :>NETWORK PRINTER, please drop me a line. I am having much trouble getting
- :>it to work here on my end. I believe the problem lies somewhere in the
- :>print filter. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!!!!!
-
- :>Actualy, the hardware is all fine, and I can print to the printer except
- :>the output is wrong. Page Breaks aren't in the right place etc...
-
- :Boy - that really isn't much of a description of the problem. You need
- :to be more specific.
-
- :But if the "Page Breaks aren't in the right place" is the typical
- :problem of printing a page, printing a bit on the next page, and then
- :form feeding to sheet 3 for what should have been the second page, edit
- :the setup codes to do one of two things, or a combination - depending
- :on what you are trying to do.
-
- :Either set the parameters to the printer on number of lines per page.
- :If it is set to 66 then you need to change the line spacing from the
- :default to a number that will print 66 lines in a place where 60 lines
- :would print.
-
- The problem is probably that HP printers don't default to 66 lines
- per page because of the unprintable areas at the top and bottom.
- You have to fiddle the initialization strings to squash the
- vertical spacing a little to get 66 lines per page. This is the
- initialization string I send to my Tandy lp1000 putting it in 66
- line mode and 16 pitch (this is a termcap definition where \E
- indicates an ESC character). Some of this may not be applicable
- to all HP Laserjet emulations, that's left as an exercise to the
- student :-).
- :is=\EE\E&k2G\E&s1C\E&l7C\E&l66F\E(s16H:\
-
- Bill
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