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From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh and Printers
Message-ID: <112@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 88 18:08:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: internal.112
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <914@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:

>I'm going to have to be careful here, contradicting an Apple Expert :-)

Actually my posting was a bit sloppy so I don't feel contradicted; what
you say is true and I will just add a comment here and there:

>The fact is, the Mac does quite well at printing labels. The only problem
>is that the Imagewriter II, like some other printers, dies a horrible death
>if you try to do a pagesuck (or just suck a bunch of lines) since the label
>tends to get pulled off of the page and onto the platen or {metal thingy that
>touches the platen}.

Quite so.  This problem with the ImageWriter is one of the reasons Apple
hasn't had much enthusiasm for serious work on the label problem.  BTW at
least one company, Williams & Macias, sells special label stock with their
label program, MyLabelMaker.  This label stock works much better than the
ordinary stuff.

>To print labels is quite easy. You can either choose to do it the Mac way or
>the DOS way. If you want to do it the Mac way, you edit the PREC 3 resource
>in your printer driver so that one of the page sizes is the same vertical size
>as a label. Then just print normally, and everything will work fine. I've
>done this for several clients.

But many who have tried this approach say that the labels still peel and
jam because of the ImageWriter's infamous "top of page dance."  If you
found a way around that one, please share!

David Casseres