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From: paul@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Paper sizes
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Date: 26 May 89 15:53:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: tony@ajfcal.UUCP (Tony Field)

In article <103@ajfcal.UUCP>, tony@ajfcal (Tony Field) writes:

>Is there a way to display all of the "paper size" information available
>within a printer.  For example, my printer (Nec LC890) can recognize
>the paper sized of letter, legal, a4 and b5.  I would like to print
>the actual paper dimensions in points:
>
>	paper height,  paper width, and the 
>	left/right/top/bottom display area boundaries
>
>For a given paper size, are the dimensions identical for ALL printers
>or are these implementation dependent?
>

I have been having problems with this too. The physical paper sizes are
standard, but the actual region of the paper that the printer can write
on varies from printer to printer, as do the supported paper sizes.
Not only does the "size" of the imageable area vary, but so does its
position relative to the Postscript origin. I don't know any way of
getting this information from the printer itself - I found it various
manuals for most of my printers. I would be grateful for any clarification
of this.




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