[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Low Level Printing Help needed

omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) (10/20/90)

I'm using the Low level printing calls to print to an ImageWriter LQ.

(No flames, please, I'm a professional, I know what I'm doing. :-)

Now, the command that prints as streaming text works correctly, but the
command that sends a bitmap out to the printer clips the bitmap on the
righthand side at about 8", which is where I figure it thinks the end
of the paper rect is.

Now, I'm not using the print manager, but the low level calls, so I don't
call the Page Setup Dialog or the Job Dialog.  so how does the Printer
Driver know how big the page is?  Better yet, how can I fool the driver
so that I can print a bitmap past the magic 8" mark?

Thanks for any and all help.

-Owen

P.S. I know all about the caveats against using the low level.  Let's just
say that I have a good reason for using them, I know what my output device
must be, and I'm not trying to do anything that isn't in Inside Mac.

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