printing to windows spooler - width of doc problem

[Nancy Palmquist]

Dennis Malen wrote:

> Brian,
> 
> Thanks for your response. Let's see if I can explain it to you properly:
> 
> The windows server has print services for UNIX running so that jobs are 
> printed through lpd /lpr. The printer is a shared printer on the windows 
> server and it defined as an HP1200 printer using RAW in spooling.
> 
> The only thing we need to know is what codes to send the printer in 
> order to go beyond 80 character.

Dennis,

You explained it just fine the first time.  I also answered you that it 
was not the way filePro sends the data it is the page parameters set for 
the printer, either by default or with the paper size & font commands.

Change the codes for the paper orientation portrait to landscape, change 
the paper size to match the paper dimensions, and if you are trying to 
fit any more than 80 characters across an 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, reduce 
the size of the font, use 12 pitch for 96 max width or 16.7 to get 132 
characters.  Those sizes are normal choices.  Which the right font you 
could even get more (not sure who could read it.).

The codes are readly available in any list of PCL codes.  You should 
have collected such a list by now.

Nancy
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