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Subject: Re: Deskjet printer driver wanted
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Date: 29 Jan 91 06:31:06 GMT
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In article <8177@suns201.cel.co.uk> jc@cel.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes:
>In article <1991Jan25.054856.19689@DMI.USherb.CA> ig29@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (infographie) writes:
>>In article <8147@suns102.cel.co.uk> jc@cel.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes:
>
>ME>    Does anyone know where I can find an HP deskjet(+) printer driver
>ME>    that will support graphics dumps bigger than 8x10 inches? I want
>
>>     It is actually a limit of the printer, not the driver.  The HP 
>>DeskJets cannot print anything wider than 8 inches, and can't use the
>
>	Ok, thats not a problem..
>
>>3 bottom lines (half an inch).  Also the printer has a top margin of 3
>>lines by default, but this can be changed (it CAN print to the top 3 lines).
>
>	But the 10 inch limit still leaves 1 1/4 inches at the bottom of an
>	A4 page that could be printed on, even after allowing for the 1/2
>	inch gap, so my original request still stands; Is there any way of
>	increasing the height?
>

Would changing the number of lines in preferences and changing the page size
to custom work?  I can't try here, I only have standard sheets.

>>     I still wish I had a 68030, though, because generating 1 meg of
>>bitmap (at 300 DPI) is a big strain on my poor 68000...  10 minutes to
>>print a page...
>> 
>>  Robert Gagnon
>
>	Yes, pro page is slow, isn't it? The AmigaTex deskjet driver
>(specifically for TeX outputs only) does a full page in about a fifth of the
>time.. and copes with A4 properly, so it can be done! I wonder how much of the
>speed difference is down to pro page and how much to going through the graphic
>dump driver?

Xoper tells me that it is the driver that takes the most CPU time.  

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>| Jerry Cullingford   jc@cel.co.uk  or  jc@crosfield.co.uk        |   ,-|--
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Robert //
     \X/ Gagnon