Re: HP4000 printing

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Paul - I had just solved the problem a different way.

Since I was pretty sure the 400 was causing the problem I ended up using
*WSCSTLETTER for the workstation customization object.  This is a
minimal conversion which basically converts the data stream to straight
text.  This fixed the problem.  I'll try the perforation skip but the
printer was placing all of the spool file lines on the paper correctly. 
I know this because there was only one output spec and I placed an '*'
at the start of each line.  

John

Paul Tykodi wrote:
> 
> 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
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