[hacknews] spr

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (02/01/84)

The format of Sanders header/trailer pages has been changed slightly,
because we suspect that our persistent problems with small misalignments
may be cured by avoiding printing in the immediate vicinity of a page
crease.  This means that the alignment marks had to go.  There is a new
alignment mark provided, however:  an underscore on the first line of
the trailer-page terminating bar lines up with the very top of the
curved metal plate that tops the printhead mechanism.  This is a little
deceptive because the Sanders doesn't do the final newline motion (where
the page-end alignment marks used to be) until it is put off-line, but
once it is off-line the alignment mark is in the right place.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (02/09/84)

The changes to the spr(1) header/trailer pages have been withdrawn.
It hasn't helped the vertical-misalignment problem, and the Sanders
has begun to display other antisocial behavior.  It's not entirely
certain that the latter is connected with the change, but the timing
is suspicious.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry