Re: WSCST object INITPRT

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to say thanks to Kirk Goins and Pat Barber on this old problem,
which finally became a high enough priority to work on again.

For the record, the problem was when printing to a Kyocera printer which was
emulating an HP printer, the workstation customization object would
correctly cause it to invoke a macro on each page, but would condense the
print (i.e. changed the CPI to something like 16.67) even though the WSCST
object set it at 10cpi.  A dump of the print stream showed the printer
initialization as per the WSCST, but then included about 5 repeats of PCL
instructions to set the font to 16.67cpi.

The problem was indeed the missing :CPICOR tag in the workstation
customization object.  IBM's Knowledge Base had an article on it, which for
the archives is:

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/1ac66549a21402188625680b0002037e/2d
5b080f6a09c6ee8625668a00566735

It starts out explaining how to force spooled files to print portrait
instead of landscape, but also shows one additional section on how to force
HPT to not condense the print at all.  Adding that :CPICOR section into our
WSCST solved the problem.

Thanks Guys!

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


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