Conference 7.286::postscript_printing

7084.0. "LN17 font issue" by JULIET::CABREIRA_RO (Bobby Cabreira) Mon Feb 17 1997 14:12

    I have a customer who  in the past has printed a file that creates a label 
    on an LN06.  It t works great on an LN06, but now, they would like to
    be able to print this on an LN17.  On the LN06,  it prints properly on
    the label area, and the text is readable.  On the LN17,  the printing
    goes over the perforation, and also the text looks like it got
    compressed, such that the letters are butted against each other, and
    hard to read.
    
    For the first problem,  we set the vertical spacing to 6 lines per
    inch, and the vertical pitch to 6 lines per inch.  With this setting, 
    the test was o.k.  in the perforation,  but the last two lines of the
    last label went to the next page.  (  SEtting edge to edge printing,
    did not work, this resulted to the left side of the printed labels
    printing on the left perforation of the labels. )
    
    Has anybody have any suggestions as to how we can get the last wtwo
    lines printed on to the first page, instead of going to the next page? 
    The printer is currently set for 60 lines per page, and we changed that
    to 66 lines per page.
    
    The next problem is the font issue. For PCL,  the printer is set to use
    the internal fonts,  and font number 0.  Is there a way to use a
    different font, using Esc sequences instead of making changes in the
    front panel?  All other applications work, except for this one.  With
    this one,  the text is all bunched up and butted against each other,
    such tht the text is sometimes unreadable and indistinguishable
    
    Can somebody please point me to where I can get the information to fix
    this second problem. 
    
    thanks in advance,
    
    Bobby Cabreira 
    LN06 

    If all other applications work except this one, then what do we do if
    this is an application problem.
    
    How about getting me a copy of a file (not a large one) that reproduces
    the problem. Then we will have better idea of what is going on. Its
    awful difficult to envision the solution relative to these font type
    problems.
    
         jeff

The LN06 was a DEC-ANSI (PPL3) printer.
The LN17 is a PCL5e printer.

While both PPL and PCL are based on ASCII and will print plain text files
in a relatively compatible way, they have different fonts and VERY different
escape sequences to control everything besides simple text execution.

Printing with size and position being criticval (a label job) is NOT
"simple text execution."  You have some work ahead of you to port this
application.

- tom]