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From: omh@nancy (Owen M. Hartnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: How do you trick the laserwriter...
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Date: 12 Feb 88 02:42:54 GMT
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How do you trick the laserwriter into printing closer to the edge of the
page than what it's supposed to?

I know you can do it, because Excel does it (not that Excel is a paragon
of programming virtue).

Let me say that I have a good reason for wanting to do this, and it would
be under close control.  [i.e. not under the power of the casual user,
as Excel's printing is.]

Finally, a plea to Apple:

Please, please, open up your printing manager to the general [read: developer]
public.  If you really want to get *securely* entrenched in the business
world, you've got to have a variety of output devices.  Look, we've got
160MB and bigger hard disks now.  What are we going to print all this
information on that we've been storing on them?  Imagewriter's too slow and
laserwriter's duty cycle too low.  

*You need a high speed output device*  Either a band printer, or good high
speed dot matrix capable of some fast printing.  You don't need to make
this a box that does fancy graphics - straight text is fine. 

Owen Hartnett
Brown University Computer Science

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