Another printing gripe

[Hyperspeed]

The part of Turboprint I use the most is the Graphics Publisher. I love the way it reads the file data to print at the highest possible resolution as opposed to dumping screen graphics. How do you manage without this?

I'm not sure what exactly is going wrong with your setup but I know that some printers have an internal limitation as to where they can print for mechanical reasons. Could you be losing part of the print because the laser simply won't go there?

Epson printers have weird unprintable areas - it's like 0.32cm for the left, 0.34cm for the right, 1.1 for the top or something like that.

Also, Line Feeds might be put into the data flow if your page sizes are set at DIN A4 which will prematurely end a U.S. page.

Graphics printing is set to Bounded right? Not Absolute or Pixels?

[Hyperspeed]

Maybe you have to set the paper length to 66 lines for A4 (210x297mm) or whatever U.S.Legal is. I had problems with text printing in DOpus so I set the print pitch to Fine, 15-cpi or something.

Try it with 'Cut Sheet' not continuous paper feed,

TurboPrint 7.5 here has the following drivers:

HP_LaserJet2
HP_LaserJet3
HP_LaserJet4
HP_LaserJet4L
HP_LaserJet5Series
HP_LaserJet6Series

Wasn't the LaserJet 5 a colour?

[Hyperspeed]

I upgraded from TurboPrint 5 to 7.5 but it didn't change much other than more drivers. Version 5 was damn good and the Graphics Publisher seemed a little 'crisper' in operation back then.

I know the latest 7.x ones allowed the Epson C64(!) which can do 5670 DPI or something like that.

TurboPrint's dithering/colour tables don't really compare too well with a PC (at least not on the older drivers) but its' output is still highly impressive.

[Hyperspeed]

Yeah, before I got a Blizzard 1230-IV many moons ago it would take a good 45 minutes on the A1200 to print an A4 24-bit picture.

My first printer was the Canon BJC-600 bubblejet which was 360 dpi and could use 4 seperate ink carts (cost me £500 GBP!). This was state of the art back in '95/'96 when people were rushing out to buy the Citizen 24-pin printer.

;-)

Getting good print results will probably be one of the most frustrating things you can learn about in computing. The reams of paper and gallons of ink I have gone through are quite scary!

Losing lines and borders is/was a big problem for me. Luckily Turboprint's Graphics Publisher is pre-loaded with the unprintable regions for all the printers in the driver list. ASCII text can be a pain in the arse though, especially since most printers have their own internal fonts and settings.