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From: daveb@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Berezowski GUEST)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Printing and Thanks to Carolyn et. al. (ANSWER to Question)
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Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 13:16:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 13:16:53 1986
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In article <869@ulowell.UUCP> Rminnich@dewey.udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
>Ok, here goes...
>
>The Star Delta 10, I am told, is the equivalent of the Commodore 
>MBS10000 specified in preferences. So I pick that, set graphic select
>to black&white, run deluxe paint with 'lo 1', and put some text on 
>the screen in emerald-20. ('This is a text' repeated three times).
>Then i print it. Some of the 'T's (on the same line!) have different
>thickness crossbars (the horizontal piece at the top). In other 
>words some T's have a crossbar one line high and some have two.
>Some 'e's have the hole filled in, some do not. I can try this 
>with any font, any letters; they come out different in 
>different places, even when they are on the same line. I am 
>going to try this with a JX-80 and see what happens but suspect
>i will see the same thing. I am also going to try an imagewriter
>(if there is a driver handy- cannot remember if one is supplied with 1.1).
>Hints anybody? I am really floored.
>

	The problems you are experiencing HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
PRINTER SPECIFIC DRIVER that you are using!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	Since EA did not allow the user to input the number of x and y
pixels to print on the printer, the driver will use preferences to figure
out what to do.  It determines the number of x and y pixels to print
via the left/right margin and the page size.  Basically it computes
the number of chars between the left and right margin and attempts to
print a picture (in x) of that size.

	So............ if you play with changing the right margin,
(which will change the size of the printout) you MAY end up getting
a printout with none of the above problems.

	Good Luck!

PS. The above formula is a simplification of the actual formula the
printer driver uses BUT suffice to say that changing the left/right
margin will give the desired effect.