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From: tony@sdd.hp.com (Tony Parkhurst)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Found a bug in all Laserjets (??)
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.144650@sdd.hp.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 22:46:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.201750.28016@unixg.ubc.ca> <1991Mar12.154233@sdd.hp.com> <1991Mar13.033650.3496@unixg.ubc.ca> <1991Mar13.052303.21648@hoss.unl.edu>
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|> In <1991Mar13.033650.3496@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
|> >In article <1991Mar12.154233@sdd.hp.com> tony@sdd.hp.com (Tony Parkhurst) writes:
|> >>
|> >>Why do you assume that this is a bug?  The manual says that graphics are
|> >>not supported while in Landscape mode.  How do you think it should behave?
 
|> >Oops, it does say this in the manual? Well, a couple of years of grad
|> >students passing through and a handful of staffs couldn't find this.
|> >So much for our reading abilities... ;) I guess we were looking at the
|> >wrong place.
 
|> I have a LaserJet IIP.  I don't know about other LaserJets, but the
|> Technical Reference Manual for that printer clearly indicates that
|> graphics is supported in landscape mode.


Oops^2, I blew this one.  It was a "compatible" printer that did not do this.
LaserJet does support graphics while in landscape mode, however, without
changing the CAP or setting the "presentation mode" (LJ III), then your
normal graphics will go off the page, and you will probably not see anything.

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		Tony Parkhurst	( tony@sdd.HP.COM )

"free people need no drug laws" -- James A. Parker