printer pages (AREV Specific)
At 06 APR 1999 05:43:47PM cmosey wrote:
Extra pages are being inserted into our laser Printer between
large print runs. It does not happen with the same jobs printed on pressure printers. We use 2.0 is there a way to adjust this or do later versions adjust.
Thanks
At 06 APR 1999 06:05PM Matt Sorrell wrote:
What kind of network are you on?
It could be that your print queues are timing out and closing the print job. If you have the print queue set to print a blank page after each job, this would cause blank pages to appear in your report, because the print queue actually sees it as multiple jobs.
One way I use to get around this is to PDISK the report to a temporary DOS file, then when the job is done copy the file to the appropriate LPT device. Finally, delete the temp file to preserver HD space.
Matt Sorrell
msorrell@movgal.com
At 07 APR 1999 12:32AM Don Bakke wrote:
Laser printers have a setting to specify the number of lines per page. Your report is probably printing exactly that many lines forcing the printer to automatically eject the page and then your report issues a page feed which ejects an additional blank page.
The easiest solution is to adjust the number of lines per page on your printer to be one more. If this is an R/List based report you could also modify your printer definition to print less lines per page.
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 07 APR 1999 12:44AM Charles Schmidling wrote:
Haviing a similar problem on HP Deskjet and just realized the problem: Deskjets, and probably laser jets too, have unprintable areas on the top and bottom of a page. Okay, so it was obvious.
Although a standard page fits the standard 66 lines per page, the printer won't allow it. So, decrease your page length accordingly. Either compute and subtract the lost lines, as defined by your printer manuals "forbidden zones" or print a page sequencing lines.
In one of those "'duh" moments,
Charles Schmidling
DATASCAN Systems, Inc.
cbms@belnet.com