Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!keith From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Deskjet printer driver wanted Message-ID: <1991Jan28.120858.6598@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 28 Jan 91 12:08:58 GMT References: <8147@suns102.cel.co.uk> Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 34 Comment-To: ben@epmooch.UUCP In article ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: > >In article <8147@suns102.cel.co.uk> jc@cel.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes: > > > > Does anyone know where I can find an HP deskjet(+) printer driver > > that will support graphics dumps bigger than 8x10 inches? I want > > to use professional page for A4 pages, (11 3/4 x 8 1/4) so losing > > the bottom inch and a bit is a real pain! > > I think if you read your LJ/DJ manual, you'll find it's the printer > itself that has this limit in it. > > -- > | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | > | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | > | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies | I think you will find that it is the bottom 1/2 in that is a "dead area" no matter what the size of the paper. With my Deskjet 500 and using Pagestream 1.8 I can print graphics within 11mm of the end of an A4 sheet. With Professional Page 1.3 no matter how I set the margins or paper size i.e A4 or US LEGAL the graphics always finish 38mm from the bottom of the paper. I use DJHELPER to manipulate my DeskJet 500 and this programme allows me to pretend that I can get 70 lines of TEXT at 6 lines/inch on an A4. If you own a Deskjet get DJHELPER. So the problem seems to be in PPage. Even using the driver that comes with DJHELPER I still get the large gap on the sheet of A4. Pagestream uses its own driver.