Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk From: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: full page printing Message-ID: <3214@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Date: 21 Apr 88 14:33:57 GMT References: Reply-To: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 23 In article mende@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) writes: > > Does anyone know how to have a postscript printer(laserwriter, >QMS800, ...) to print to the *exact* edges of a page. I have an [ remaining text deleted ] Sorry Bob. Because of the method used inside most (all?) desk top laser printers to handle paper, there is an unprintable region around the paper edges. The following tiny postscript program will show you the printable region for your printer: 0 0 moveto clippath fill showpage It (the program) will fill the printable region with black. On some laser printers it is frustrating to see just how much space around the paper edges is unusable. Ken Keirnan -- Ken Keirnan -- Pacific Bell -- {ihnp4,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk San Ramon, California kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM