Printer question

[mikebw at colossus.bilow.com (Mike Bilow)]

You can (a) disable "perforation skip" or (b) set the page length on the
front panel of the printer to match your software.

-- Mike


On 2000-05-21 at 23:03 -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me out with a problem I
> encountered with a Laserjet printer.  I recently set up my desktop to
> use two shared printers on a Win98 machine using RedHat's printtool. 
> This took a bit of work (understanding exactly what syntax the app
> wanted in certain places, anyways), but I was pretty impressed to get
> them both working, one being an older HP Laserjet IIP and the other a
> new HP Deskjet 830C, with the latter printing quite nicely in color. 
> The problem I'm having, which is not network-related at all, is that
> printing with the Lasetjet comes out exactly 1/4" too high on the page
> (with both the postscript test page and any StarOffice printing I've
> done).  The only margin settings in printtool are for fitting multiple
> pages on one physical page, and I was curious whether anyone has
> encountered this before and might know of a GS option to fix the
> starting point of the top margin.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Brian J. Conway
> dogbert at clue4all.net
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