Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!tymix!antares!jms
From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Excellence! help wanted
Summary: Try bounded graphics in Preferences
Keywords: 1.3 printer.device
Message-ID: <373@antares.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 04:59:08 GMT
References: <6960@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <6960@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> davidg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (David Guntner) writes:
>Excellence! and an Alps 224e printer, which emulates an Epson 2500LQ printer.
>I'm using the EpsonQ printer driver under Prefrences.  Now the problem:
>Whenever I try to do letter-quality mode, it double spaces every line.

In the off chance that my problem is related to your problem, let me tell you
about the the quirks I tripped over.  

I was creating a picture with Dpaint-II and printed a copy on my dot matrix
printer, everything was fine.  After saving the picture, I rebooted in order
to show off some demos.  Getting back to work, I added to the picture and
tried to print it again.  This time the picture came out horizontal bands -
1/8 inch of graphics and 1/8 inch of blank paper, repeatedly.  Only after
letting the picture print out completely did I see the real problem.  A blob
that was part of the right edge of the picture showed up in the blank lines.
I eventually realized it was trying to print 8.5 inches of picture on a
printer that had a limit of 8.0 inches. 

I had seen a hint in some old documentation that recommended adjusting the
left and right margins if bands show up.  Changing the margins in Dpaint's
print requester had no effect this time.  I was very frustrated until I
thought to boot from my wife's disk, which had 1.2 on it.  At this point, the
picture did print properly, and the margin settings did have an effect.

Returning to the 1.3 Workbench, I fixed the problem by going into Preference's
Graphics-2 requester, and changing "Limits" from Ignore to Bounded and the
"Width Limit" to 8.0 inches.  This also explains why my Xerox-4020 sometimes
sprayed ink past the edge of the paper.  Now that I have set the limits to
be bounded at 8.0 inches on all my bootable disks, I don't have this problem
anymore.

I am puzzled, however, as to why the 1.3 printer.device uses 8.5 inches when
the Limits setting is Ignore.  Page 1-10 of the 1.3 AmigaDOS Enhancer manual
states that the width of the graphics dump is supposed to be determined by the
left and right character margins.  But my experience shows this to not be the
case.  Has anyone at Commodore seen this behaviour?

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