dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu (david m archer) (12/28/90)
[First off, I'd like to apologize for the wide distribution of this message. I've hopefully set the followup correctly to comp.periphs.printers, but I still ask that replys be sent by e-mail; if someone for some odd reason would like a summary, just ask.] I'm having a bit of a problem printing on a QMS-PS-410 laser printer. It's a rather nice creation with AppleTalk, Serial, & Parallel ports on it, and it does both PostScript & HP LaserJet emulation. I'm attempting to print from within Paradox (a db), on legal-sized paper in landscape orientation. Paradox lets me enter a line of escape codes to set things up, in fact, it even gives me a listing of what codes I should be using to achieve what I want. Unfortunately, what seems to be happening is that it's not recognizing the fact that I'm feeding it legal sized paper, and only prints on the last 11" of the paper as if it was letter sized paper. It seems to me there's no real way to define that I'm using legal sized paper, at least, not in HP escape codes, so after flipping through the manual a couple times, I start getting the idea that I have to send it a bit of postscript code to tell it that it's got legal sized paper. I thought this was a bit on the odd side of things, but calling QMS and talking to one of their tech people seems to verify that this is what you have to do. That doesn't seem to work, I somewhat suspect that the printer is reseting itself when I switch from postscript mode back into HP Laserjet mode, but that's only a wild guess. Something else that I've been thinking about is, how does a person with a normal HP LaserJet type printer (without postscript) print on legal sized paper, seeing as they can't send strange postscript code to tell it that? It prints fine on legal sized paper when hooked up to a Mac, so I can't see why shouldn't be able to do what I'm trying to make it do. Anyone out there got any ideas? I'm sure I'll eventually figure this out, but I'd like to do it without killing *too* many trees... --- Note: I do not represent my employer or school, & sometimes not even myself. Dave Archer | Internet: V116KZND@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU ! | dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu | Bitnet: V116KZND@UBVMS | GEnie: D.ARCHER | Prodigy: Surely you jest!
swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold) (01/03/91)
Re: Printing legal-size paper on a LaserJet
In order for the LaserJet to print the complete area of a sheet of legal-size
paper (a US term), you have to send it an escape sequence describing the
attributes of the paper being fed into the machine.
Use this sequence in your setup strings:
ESC & l # P [escape, ampersand, ell, decimal numbers, uppercase P]
where the # is replaced by the number of lines to be printed per page.
OMIT THE SPACES; they are shown just for clarity.