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Damian Esealuka wrote to midrange-l: I have an Hp laser jet printer 5 directly attached to 400 thru a twinax. The HP laser printer is emulating 5219 model. How can I make it print in condensed form without sending escape printer codes. I understand that there is a way thru creating printer files. I have tried several options and yet the print out still comes out large. I have also tried changing the printer defintions thru chgdevprt command. Dear Damian, Here is some information about a feature you might want to try activating on your system (Computer Output Reduction - COR). Properly enabling the feature may require you to configure the twinax printer interface attached to your HP LaserJet printer. When IBM Midrange computers were initially produced, letter quality printing was supported with a daisy wheel printer. The printer, known as an IBM 5219, could handle both green bar continuous forms paper being fed up through the bottom of the printer or letter and legal size paper stored in cut sheet feed trays. When IBM prepared to begin shipping their first laser printer for the Midrange environment (3812 model 1), they were faced with the need to support applications that printed on paper that was too large to be fed into a laser printer (green/grey bar paper). Their answer was to create a laser printer function called Computer Output Reduction (COR). The feature worked much like the reduction feature of a copier in that it reduced an incoming report to 70% of full size. The form size received from the host had to be larger than LEGAL paper in order for the COR function to be invoked. All of IBM's direct twinax attach matrix printer products have a defined carriage width of 13.2 inches. Since this value is less than the 14 inch length of LEGAL paper rotated into landscape orientation, the COR feature is usually triggered by the page length being greater than 8.5 inches (more than 51 lines at 6 LPI or 68 lines at 8 LPI). The COR font and LPI substitutions are as follows: Host Application Requests 10 CPI - Printer Uses 13.3 CPI Host Application Requests 12 CPI - Printer Uses 15 CPI Host Application Requests 15 CPI - Printer Uses 20 CPI Host Application Requests 17 CPI - Printer Uses 27 CPI Host Application Requests 6 LPI - Printer Uses 8.6 LPI Host Application Requests 8 LPI - Printer Uses 11.1 LPI Top Margin - Set to 1/2 inch Left Margin - Set to 1/2 inch The COR function is only used with fixed pitch fonts (i.e. all characters receive the same amount of space). It is not a good idea to map reports constructed with fixed pitch fonts to a proportional font. If this procedure is implemented; bolding, justification, and tabs may not appear as expected. HTH /Paul -- Paul Tykodi, Technical Director E-mail: pault@praim.com Praim Inc. Tel: 603-431-0606 140 Congress St., #2 Fax: 603-436-6432 Portsmouth, NH 03801-4019 +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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