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Another printing gripe
« on: February 18, 2007, 10:20:18 PM »
I have an HP LaserJet 6MP.  This is by far the best printer I've ever owned, and I'm giving it up for nothing.

It is on a Netgear printserver, and all my Amigas, PC's, and Sparcstations can print to it, and this works great.

I dumped TurboPrint when I upgraded to OS3.5, and I currently run OS3.9 and use the printing system that comes with that.

Here's the problem:  In the Printer preferences, I cannot adjust the top of the page.  I can adjust the left, right, and bottom, but not the top.  Everything I print from my Amigas is 1.5 lines off the top of the printable area on the page.
I don't know what I did with my TurboPrint disks, so I don't know if I want to bother with that option.
I have actually written a program to add extra blank lines to text files so I can print them.  This is really annoying.
Am I just doing something wrong, or is there something I'm missing?
I use U.S. Letter and U.S. Legal paper.  Maybe there is something metric about the print driver??
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Re: Another printing gripe
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2007, 11:17:56 PM »
I have tried every combination of paper setting, but with only two physical paper sizes.  I don't have any A4 paper..

I have no problems with graphics, just text.  When I print text, the first line on a page doesn't print at all, and on the second line, only the bottom half of the text prints.
I believe this is the printer's limitation, but, is there a way to tell the print driver to try and print in bounds?

For whatever reason, I installed TurboPrint.  Don't know why I never bothered to look for the disks before today.  BUT, I have the opposite problem now.  No matter what I set for the vertical text boundaries in TurboPrefs, I get an extra blank line at the top of the page and a half a printed line at the bottom!

I *rarely* print graphics.  Other than postscript, via IBrowse.  It sure is great having a postscript printer!
I used to use Graphics Publisher a lot, and I tried it out just now to see if I still have the same problems, and yes I do.  It always locks up after it's done printing, and it locks up all VNC shells too, I guess I should be looking for Enforcer hits.  But, like I said, I generally don't print graphics, especially not on a black and white printer.

Here's another question that's been bugging me the past year or so:  Is there a genuine color HP LaserJet printer that is supported in any way on the Amiga?  I don't want to buy one and find out the hard way.
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Re: Another printing gripe
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2007, 03:21:15 AM »
I can set it to 66, 96, 23, 1, or whatever, and it still runs off the page.  It's not on continuous paper.  I used to have a LaserJet 5.  No it's not color.  Neither is the 6.
I should look into upgrading my TurboPrint, I have version 7.1.
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Re: Another printing gripe
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2007, 11:30:51 PM »
I remember when I first got Studio on my A500, and it had better color and dithering than anything else I could get my hands on.  It would take my A500 2 hours to print a full page in color on my HP600C ( which was the latest greatest home color printer at the time ), but it was worth it.  Naturally, I could print faster once I upgraded from the stock 68000.
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Re: Another printing gripe
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2007, 03:00:03 AM »
I had one of those Citizen printers.  It was full color, but was a disaster.  It actually had some really nice features, but, when printing in color the paper would wrinkle and crinkle badly.  It fried twice, the second time, I didn't bother to get it fixed.  That was my last tractor feed printer.  I need to get another tractor feed one.  Even my 1970's daisy wheel printer has a sheet feeder.
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