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From: josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Simplelogic (Joseph))
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Subject: Re: Found bug on all Laserjets (??)
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.070345.3555@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 07:03:45 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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The problem, as I understand it, is not a bug, but rather just the way
HP defined how rasterize graphics should be handled by the PCL.

The graphics output is independent of the font orientation, and will
always go from the upper-left corner of a portrait sheet to the right-
most corner, and repeat for the next lower raster...

The problem is that when in the landscape mode, the "cursor" is at a wrong
location on the paper, and so when the HP tries to move the cursor as
it does the raster graphics, it places the graphics where no paper exist,
causing an error.

It's been some time since I've played with LJ's (ever since the original
Laser Jet NON-plus)...  So some of the things I said may or may not apply,
(or even be correct - my memory fades quickly sometimes...) Boy, time sure
flies when you're printing up a storm...

--Joseph
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Joseph I. Chiu, Department of Computer Science, Calif. Inst. of Technology
1-57 Fleming House, Caltech, Pasadena 91126.   (818) 585-0393
josephc@coil.caltech.edu               ...Just another lost soul in the universe