Re: wcst setting for hp4200 reduce margins

Hi Jim,

Many laser printers have unprintable margins that reduce the number of
columns that can be printed on a line. In the case of the HP 4200, the
unprintable margins are about .2 inches on each side.

The method to fix your problem is to add a Horizontal Motion Index (HMI)
command after the CPI selection command. The HMI command allows you to
specify a particular CPI, which is used to determine the size of monospaced
font characters, and then change the spacing to allow all the characters to
fit in the space you have available.

The algorithm to calculate HMI is as follows:

space available in inches/characters desired per line * 120 = HMI.

In your case, 10.6/110 * 120 = 11.56

The PCL command in hex would therefore be as follows:

1B 26 6B 31 31 2E 35 36 48

If you append this information to the already existing data in the 10 CPI
selection sequence, it will tighten the spacing of the 10 CPI font
characters to 10.38 CPI so that all 110 characters fit into the 10.6 inches
of printable area offered by the HP 4200 when printing on letter paper in
landscape orientation.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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>date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:56:55 -0400
>from: "Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: wcst setting for hp4200 reduce margins
>
>we replaced an old hp laser with a twinax card with a
>hp4200 w/ethernet jet direct.
>All our landscape reports are now missing last few characters.
>8x11 landscape at 10 cpi should print 110 characters.
>We get 106. Tried *COR and users screamed at tiny print.
>Tried 12 cpi and they screamed again.
>Now looking at WSCST and can see top margin setting in pcl.
>Can't see other margins.
>Can anyone tell me the settings or where to look.
>tia
>jim