Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!millerjv From: millerjv@rigel.crd.ge.com (Jim V Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Deluxe (music) and DJ printing Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 90 13:03:36 GMT References: <1990Aug13.190229.20209@uncecs.edu> <31110004@hpfinote.HP.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Jimmy Miller) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Lines: 53 In-reply-to: aoe@hpfinote.HP.COM's message of 17 Aug 90 21:05:10 GMT In article <31110004@hpfinote.HP.COM> aoe@hpfinote.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) writes: From: aoe@hpfinote.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) Date: 17 Aug 90 21:05:10 GMT Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD >Well, I can get Deluxe Music to run (by lobotomizing my caches.) I can get >it to play (though it takes over the audio device.) But as for printing with >my Hewlett Packard DeskJet - it prints one stave/staff and then ejects the >page, continuing on the next page (which also gets just one staff...) >Does anybody know what is causing that form feed command? This is symptomatic of what personal experience has shown me with the HP LaserJet II, namely, it doesn't have enough memory to store the whole page in its memory. The HP LaserJet II, without memory expansion, would only handle about 65% of a page at 300dpi. Alexander Elkins (I don't speak for the company, I just work there) This sounds very familar.... When Rich Champeaux and I were developing PLT: (HP-GL interpreter) this same symptom appeared. Everything worked fine on Rich's Okidata 293 (?), but on my Laserjet, I would get several pages ejected. We were dumping a series of RastPorts using the DumpRPort() routine which unfortunately allowed the printer to perform a formfeed after each dump. There is a flag in the 1.3 printer control routines that will inhibit this formfeed. This worked for us. If I were writing a score dumper I would "band" the output since I could then take advantage of the resolution of the printer. (Scores are inherently banded anyway). It may be possible that Deluxe Music does not make proper use of the printer control flags. If this is the case there is really nothing you can do to stop it (with the exception of directing the output to a file and removing all the extra ESC-E (?) sequences. These same symptoms will also appear if your printer runs out of memory but the printer will show an error and if you tell it to continue it will start printing at the physical page location where it left off. You can reinsert the piece of paper but it hardly ever aligns up perfectly. Since the original poster did not mention that the printer generates an error or that the second page starts printing where the first left off, I would guess that SPECIAL_NOFORMFEED (?) flag is not used when opening the printer. -- Jimmy Miller General Electric Corporate Research and Developement: millerjv@crd.ge.com Rensselaer Design Research Center (RPI): jvmiller@rdrc.rpi.edu "All I need is room to play."