Hello, I had this buried in another thread entitiled "Printer margins goofy." The stats: A4000D, turboprint pro ver 7, Wordsworth 7, and Finalwriter ver. 5 and 5.03. I am trying to figure out where the problem lies. It has been ages since I set up printing on a miggy, and back then dot matrix was a cinch. The printer in question is a laserjet 5l Xtra, no memory expansion.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl02601It is connected to the miggy via standard parallel cable. The issue is margins. From wordsworth 7, it will print margins just fine but final writer prints way offset to the left. Also, I am not positive which printer driver the system is using when it prints- turboprints or the hp_laser in the prefs chooser. The spooler works, sort of...either program takes about a minute to "direct print" to the spooler, which then takes some time sending it on to the printer. My goal is for finalwriter to print properly. The other confusing thing are the many places to adjust print "margins" that seem to not affect the printing output. The Prefs folder holds three different widgets to adjust: Printer, PrinterGfx, and PrinterPS. The regular "printer" widget allows me to assign not only paper format (simple enough) but also paper length in lines (WTF?), left "margin" and right "margin"(in characters???). Print "spacing" (currently at 6 lines per inch) and print "pitch"(currently set at "pica"). PrinterPS seems more straightforward, but if I choose postscript output in final writer I get one line on the first page telling me I'm printing in Post script then many blank pages that follow.
Now....TurboPrefs! It tells me (correctly) that my printer is an HP Laserjet 5 series. It uses the Turbo_par port. Everything else in the tabbed views looks like a normal printer dialog until "text". There, we get the next printer "margins" box, very similar to the one in the original 3.1 printer prefs widget. you can adjust left, right and top margins (no units of type given, just arbitrary integers). Left is set at "1" right is set at "85" top at "0" and page length at "0". Print pitch and line spacing are here as well. Line spacing can be 61 or 81, print pitch can be 10, 12, or 15. There is also a PS tab here as well. I have no idea what to set all these things to for my specific printer to print correctly from final writer or any program not wordsworth. Any help, advice, books, pdfs you could send my way would be great!
