Re: HP4000 printing

Hi John,

The HP 4000 printer has an unprintable margin at both the top and bottom of
the page. The phenomenon you describe (blank page) can occur when the
printer believes that some portion of the last line of text has entered its
unprintable margin.

Since you know your page is always going to be 64 lines long, you have the
option to disable a printer feature called Perforation Skip. This feature,
which is always enabled by default, insures that applications created for
printers that can print edge to edge don't cause the printer to lose data by
allowing printable data to enter the unprintable margin area.

When you disable Perforation Skip, you get maximum page coverage from the
printer. The downside is that any data which cannot be printed (due to the
unprintable margins) will be lost once the Perforation Skip feature is
disabled.

Disabling the Perforation Skip in your case will probably allow the 64th
line to fit correctly on the page. The HP PCL command to disable perforation
skip is 1B 26 6C 30 4C and this command needs to be inserted in the
Initialization Sequence parameter of a WSCST that you will need to create.

Good Luck!

/Paul

Paul Tykodi
Director of Technical Services
LCI-Intermate US, Inc.

p: 603.431.0606 x115
f:  603.436.6432
paul@intermate-us.com
www.intermate.com

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:40:05 -0400
From: John Hall <jhall@hillmgt.com>
Subject: HP4000 printing

I am trying to print a report to a RMTOUTQ on an HP4000 printer.  The
report is 84 columns wide and 64 lines long.  It fits on one sheet of
paper nicely but the printer always ejects a second piece of paper which
is blank.  If I send this report to a different laser printer (AFP) this
does not happen.

I assume I need to change something in the WSCST I am using but I don't
know what.  TIA.



John Hall
Home Sales Co.

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