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Subject: Re: 11 by 17 inch postscript laser printer
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Date: 8 Feb 90 18:13:03 GMT
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We recently installed an Imagen 6320 (owned by QMS now) that does
Impress and UltraScript (a PostScript clone).  It has duplex printing
and can handle upto ledger (11 x 17) paper.  I just finished writing
a substyle for LaTeX which sets a two column format for direct transfer
to large mats for a conference (NAECON).  Before we had this printer,
we had to print strips on letter or legal size paper and transfer those
to the mats.  Now I can get the whole image on an 11 x 17 piece of paper.  

Only problem was that
something in either my dvips driver or the printer (most likely the driver)
caused the output to start halfway down the page, which I solved by telling
LaTeX its topmargin height was -6 inches.  The only other minor complaint
is that the print engine produces much lighter type than say a LaserWriter,
but not nearly as bad as a DEC LNO3R ScriptPrinter.  Otherwise, we've been
pretty happy with this printer.

Mark Roth
mroth@afit.af.mil