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From: daveg@hpcvra.HP.COM (Dave Guggisberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PowerType Printer Problem
Message-ID: <5050002@hpcvra.HP.COM>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 12:44:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 12:44:38 1987
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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Re:  B being printed by Microsoft Word 3.1 at start of print

Word tries to initialize the printer when it begins a print run.  One
of the things it does is set the number of lines per page.  B is decimal
66.  Word is trying to tell your printer to use 66 lines per page.

Printers usually parse escape sequences until the sequence is completed
or until the sequence becomes unrecognized.  Your printer stops 
recognizing the sequences at the 66 so it prints a B.

You can either modify the lines per page escape sequence or eliminate it
from the prd file to correct the behavior.  And yes I have the battle
scars from my fight over the infamous B.

Dave Guggisberg
Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis, OR

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