ash@mlacus.oz (Ash Nallawalla) (05/24/91)
We have a DataProducts LZR1260 PostScript printer that appears to print correctly from XyWrite Plus and from Quattro. Anything printed from a Windows 3.0 application, e.g. Write, CorelDRAW, Paintbrush, WinWord etc is stretched vertically. Has anyone else struck this problem? Is the original Win 3.0 PSCRIPT.DRV driver faulty? Is the printer (this unit only) faulty -- it was mainly used in the HP LaserJet+ emulation mode before, where we used to load it with soft fonts. They could be used by only one print job--the next job would just not see the soft fonts. -- ============================================================================= Ash Nallawalla Tel: +61 3 550-1638 BH; Fax +61 3 742-4566 (Home) ZL4LM/VK3CIT Postal: P.O. Box 539, Werribee VIC 3030, Australia ash@mlacus.oz.au, ash@csource.oz.au Fidonet: 3:635/508
ccmk@lure.latrobe.edu.au (05/25/91)
In article <775@mlacus.oz>, ash@mlacus.oz (Ash Nallawalla) writes: > We have a DataProducts LZR1260 PostScript printer that appears to > print correctly from XyWrite Plus and from Quattro. Anything printed > from a Windows 3.0 application, e.g. Write, CorelDRAW, Paintbrush, WinWord > etc is stretched vertically. > > Has anyone else struck this problem? Is the original Win 3.0 PSCRIPT.DRV > driver faulty? The only time this happens with ours is when PostScript uses the Apple LaserWriter page size of Letter, which is not on most PS printers. Perhaps the solution under Windows 3 (which we use with our Dataproducts with no problem) is to select Dataproducts from the PS driver set. Mark Kosten
ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) (05/27/91)
>We have a DataProducts LZR1260 PostScript printer that appears to >print correctly from XyWrite Plus and from Quattro. Anything printed >from a Windows 3.0 application, e.g. Write, CorelDRAW, Paintbrush, WinWord >etc is stretched vertically. > >Has anyone else struck this problem? Is the original Win 3.0 PSCRIPT.DRV >driver faulty? > >Is the printer (this unit only) faulty -- it was mainly used in the HP >LaserJet+ emulation mode before, where we used to load it with soft fonts. >They could be used by only one print job--the next job would just not see >the soft fonts. It's a Postscript interpreter bug in the 1260. I first encountered it on our 1260 printing PS files from Framemaker and other WP programs. Also the output of dvips. The problem is that the interpreter reads the %%BoundingBox line and sees US letter dimensions, which tickles the bug. The fix depends on the program. For dvips I simply used a4 mode. For Framemaker you specify a4 dimensions. For pregenerated PS output, I removed the %%BoundingBox lines.