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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printing legal area on NEC LC890 running PS 47
Summary: Answer to the problem is via the front panel
Message-ID: <96@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 15:55:03 GMT
References: <95@dsinc.UUCP>
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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In article <95@dsinc.UUCP>, syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) writes:
> I am trying to print a legal page on the NEC LC890 postscript
> printer.  I set the 'legal' operator and that shifted my coordinate
> system properly.  I then tried to print on the page, but the imageable
> area was not changed.  It printed on the top 11 inches (well less
> printer margins) of the paper and left the bottom blank.  Any
> suggestions from LC890 people??

I received the answer from:
:Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 08:38:58 EST
:From: lll-tis!ames!rutgers!kodak.com!nelson (bruce nelson)
:Message-Id: <8903201338.AA17692@KODAK.COM>
:Subject: Re: Printing legal area on NEC LC890 running PS 47
:Organization: Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY
:
:To print legal size paper on the LC-890, you have to set the paper length from
:the menu selection via the front panel switches. The printer has no way to
:automatically detect paper size ... you have to tell it. 

In other words, there is no 'paperlength' operator and legal does
not set the paper length like the manual says.  If you select it
via the setup/test/... menu it works just fine.
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