Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-vcd!robertt
From: robertt@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Bob Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.0 + Winword + Deskjet 500 = ?
Message-ID: <920006@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 15:41:23 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.221917.3135@coral.bucknell.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
Lines: 16

> The 'print' option on the File-Manager menu does not work properly.  It tries
> to print one more line than the DJ can handle.  Hopefully this bug in the
> DJ driver will be fixed soon.

One more time - this is a problem with file manager, not the DJ driver.  File
Manager only checks to see if the top of a character will fit on a page, not
the entire character.  It therefore asks the DeskJet (and many other printers)
to print out of their printable areas.  There was a bug in the older DESKJET.DRV
drivers (now fixed) that could cause some funny results when this happened,
but this has been fixed.  The DeskJet 500 Scalable driver just clips the
text - it prints the parts of the characters that do fit on the page.  Until
Microsoft fixes File Manager, the work around is to print the file using
Notepad, which works fine.

bob taylor
HP Vancouver