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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HP Desk Jet - Opinions
Message-ID: <1989Sep12.152056.855@holos0.uucp>
Date: 12 Sep 89 15:20:56 GMT
References: <12416@athertn.Atherton.COM> <3080@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <3080@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> tjr@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (thomas.j.roberts) writes:
=BEWARE: the DeskJet has problems with page-length, due to its inability
=to print on the last 1/2 inch of a page.
=
=I have written a UNIX/MS-DOS filter to do the following:
=	On every page, preceed line 64 (if it exists) with a form-feed.
=	If lines 64,65,66 exist and are blank, delete them.
=	If lines 64,65,66 do not exist, they must have been deleted by
=		a form-feed on input, so there is no problem.
=	If there is a form-feed on line 1 (top of page), delete it.

You took the hard way.  Send the escape sequence to the printer to get
it to space the lines very slightly closer than 6 lines per inch.
Our Xenix lp script has the following line, which does that and probably
something else, too.

		echo "\033E\033&l7.27c66F\c"

Our system thus handles 66 lines per page in a satifactory manner.  I
also added an lpr switch to override this action for the rare case when
exact spacing matters.  I have never used that switch.
-- 
Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
Voice: (404) 496-1358
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