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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
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Subject: Re: Found a bug in all Laserjets (??)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 17:47:57 GMT
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In article <7947@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu.UUCP (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
>  On page 11-7 of Laser series II Printer Technical Reference Manual,
>it says 
>   " On the LaserJet series II, raster graphics rows are printed along
>the width of the physical page, regardless of the logical page orientation....
>"
>A picture is provided at the bottom of the page to make this clear.
>
Yes, that was what I thought too. And that was one of the problems why
I was looking at the wrong place. After reading that "printed along
the width of the physical page", I figured that even if the orientation
was wrong, I would just get my image chopped off. That's why I said to
myself at the very beginning that this must not be the problem since
I was getting blanks sheets. That's why I ignored it and was looking
elsewhere. But now we know why. As others have pointed out,
in the PCL language, if you leave the cursor position at the origin
of the landscape mode, then proceed to output in the portrait
orientation, you'd be plotting off the page. Ain't computers fun? :)

Thomas.