Re: printer problem

["ac127" ac127@xxxxxxxx]

This printer problem is not connected to our off-list corrispondence,
I' ve the necessity to print some documents in a compressed-like
typeface using two differente deskjet printers, hp690c and epson stylus 820,

And the better solution seems to use laser printer drivers.

off topics
what' s the meaning of ""flash's dictum....etc) ?

by.


Date sent:   	Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:26:28 -0400
From:      	"Patricia M. Godfrey" 
To:       	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject:    	Re: printer problem
Send reply to: 	xywrite@xxxxxxxx

> ac127 wrote:
> >>> Is there a simple way, as in dot matrix printer, to switch
> >>> compressed (17cpi) on and off ?
>
> Oh, horrors! Sorry, everyone. Ac127 doesn't need
> compressed. You just need to load either of the HP 4lJ
> printer drivers before trying to print report.txt.
>
> I'm posting this to the whole list, because it's a
> horrible example (an exemplum as the medievals
> used to say) of Flash's dictum that "assume makes an
> ass of u and me." Ac127 had asked, a while back, for a
> way of getting some data out of a database table. We
> had some off-list correspondence, and I wrote him or
> her a dBase 5 program that would output the data to a
> fully (and fairly heavily) formatted Xy document:
> landscape orientation, Column Tables, proportional
> font. Like an idiot, I forgot to mention what .prn file
> I had loaded in Xy when I first created the document
> framework (whose formatting codes I then embedded in
> the dBase code so they would be output in the data
> stream; I detailed this procedure back on 22 May 2005,
> under expanding horizons).
>
> The LJ drivers all support proportional fonts; trying
> to print a doc that assumes that with a DJ .prn file
> apparently generates a call for compressed. (I hardly
> ever use the DJ drivers; the LJ ones work with any DJ
> printer I've ever tried them with, and give you nicer
> output.)
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx
>