Re: missing print forms


"Arthur Entlich" <e-printerhelp@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Ron,

I'm going to send this on to some of the people I converse with at
Microsoft regarding printer driver issues and see if they either have a
reasonable answer as to what's going on, if they are aware of this
problem, and if they know of a work around. I'll let you know what I find
out.

Art

(snip)

Art - I have had an HP P3005 laserjet now for about four months. I
routinely use Wordperfect 8 due to the ease to view ALL formatting codes
when desired. I've also found that WP is much more convienent for
formatting documents as the format follows the document for printer setup,
whereas MS Word can sometimes present printer formatting difficulties with
two places to deal with such formats. I do use MS Word, however, when it is
necessary for me to share documents with others who are more likely to have
Word than WP.

The problems I had with the new HP printer are twofold. One is that one of
the Avery label formats that worked fine with the HP 5p printer I just
replaced (which, by the way, was still working with never a down second)
prints out with a different left margin and screws up this one label set. I
spent a great deal of time with customer tech support, switched from PCL6 to
PCL5 without improvement, and finally decided to print this particular
label on my inkjet instead. I could have adjusted the margin in the Avery
format to "fake" the proper output, or I could have printed it out of MSWord
2000, . This particular label print job is one I sometimes only want to
print a few labels on the page, and the laser printer produces a fair amount
of heat which is a contraindication for running a label page through the
printer twice, whereas the inkjet printer handles the double or triple
feeding of labels with no problem.

The other problem has to do with the paper guides. I prefer that the left
guide be fixed and the right guide moved to accomodate document width. I'm
sure that having both paper guides move toward the center simplifies the
paper feed mechanism and probably would prevent skewing in some cases.
Skewing was never a probem with the HP 5p with a fixed left guide, however.
The requirement to move both guides toward the center takes away the ability
to avoid setting custom paper sizes and print smaller-than-8.5 width papers
by simply setting the right margin to accomodate the narrower stock. This
is a quick trick when occasionally printing off-size envelopes.

Small complaints that are easily overcome, and the new printer is super-fast
and works well. Nonetheless, These are some of the quirks in
computerization that are annoying until a workaround is arranged.


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