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From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
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Subject: Re: 4 in 1
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Date: 2 Aug 90 21:33:19 GMT
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In article <140013@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com
(Abdenacer Moussaoui) writes:
>Is there a program for PCs to print 4 pages of text on one single page
>side using a laserjet?  

At simtel-20, under printer utilities, you'll find a little thingy called
DOCSMASH...I don't have the exact name of the .arc file handy.

It works just fine (a little hard to read, but then....;^) on my Epson
LQ-510. On my Epson MX-80 (with Graftrax), it was just about unusable: the
edges of the "pages" intersected/overlapped; the print was too coarse to read
reliably; etc. The jump from 8 to 24 pins made a great difference.

If your Laserjet has an "Epson" mode, try it out. It's shareware; play with
it, try to make it work, if it doesn't, well, then, you're out no money.

That's a nice thing about shareware.

What I'm looking for is a 4p./side, 2-SIDED printer. This, I've not yet seen,
and these things aren't "filters" enough to allow connecting in this fashion.

Still, if we can get a paginator that will split a file in groups of four
pages rather than singles, we may have something as a front end to Docsmash.


						Best o' luck,
							 d


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