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From: pipkinsj@cpqhou.uucp (Jeff Pipkins @Adv Dev@SE hou )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript printing small and mirrorimaged!!
Message-ID: <1991Jan02.190554.5285@cpqhou.uucp>
Date: 2 Jan 91 19:05:54 GMT
References: <7699@hub.ucsb.edu> <371@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: pipkinsj@cpqhou.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins @Adv Dev@SE hou )
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
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In article <371@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> claus@suncvt13.verfahrenstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Claus Fleischer) writes:
>In article <7699@hub.ucsb.edu> raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) writes:
>>We have one postscript printer here ...
>
>>                                  ... If someone prints a graphics image
>>from a DOS program named "CorelDraw" to the printer and then someone sends
>>a normal text file (which gets converted to postscript via the transcript
>>program "pstext", but I've used "enscript" also with the same results), the
>>CorelDraw image comes out just fine but the text file gets printed in a
>>little tiny font and in mirror image fashion!
>>
>
>We have the same problem on our installation after sending PS-output
>from LaTeX (converted with dvips 4.2) to the laser printer. The behavior
>Richard described occures exactly for the first page of the next
>print job. 
>

Just send a control-D (ASCII 04) to the printer to reset it after running
CorelDraw.  You can use the DOS echo command "echo ^D>lpt1" (of course,
the ^D is what DOS displays when you hold down the ctrl key and hit D,
but it sends the correct code).

-- 
Jeff D. Pipkins (uunet!cpqhou!pipkinsj)

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