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From: schulz@germany.CSNET (Eberhard Schulz)
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Subject: Canon LBP-A1 and Swiss font cartridge
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Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 14:19:36 EDT
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I have a Canon LBP-A1 with a Swiss (aka Helvetica) font cartridge hooked to an
Olivetti M24 (IBM-PC compatible) running Microsoft Word.
The first thing I noticed is that fonts larger than 10 point aren't available;
the second thing was that the speed decreased drastically with the font
cartridge installed (it's not half as bad with the Garland [= Times Roman]
cartridge).
So far I haven't succeeded in writing a Word printer description file that will
produce a printout with a neat right margin. Fiddling with the character width
table and the microspace flag didn't help.
Has anybody written a working printer description file, or can anybody give me
general hints how to convert a specification in the style of the Canon manual
into a working printer description? Why does the Garland font cartridge work
without problems?
Thanks a lot in advance, and please reply > directly < to my address.