printing to windows spooler - width of doc problem

[Dennis Malen]

Nancy,

We are printing  16.7. That also wraps after the 80th character. The 
suggestion of landscape will turn the job 90 degress if we change the 
printer parameters and effect other jobs that don't need portrait..

I need a print code that will force the printer to exceed 80 characters.

Nancy, do you mean to change the printer parameters on the printer or in 
filePro????

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Palmquist" <nlp at vss3.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "filePro mailing list" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: printing to windows spooler - width of doc problem


> 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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