Printing Standard Landscape on Laser Printers

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:03:53 PM

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Solutions: To print in the landscape orientation on an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper on a laser printer, do the following three steps: STEP 1: Make sure the Standard form is set up correctly. To go to the Forms screen press Shift-F7, S (Select Printer), 3 (Edit), 4 (Forms). There should be a form called Standard with a size of 8.5" x 11". There should not be any other forms with that name and size together on the same line in the list of forms. If there are duplicate form names and sizes on the screen, documents printed will give unpredictable results. The list of forms should not contain a form named Standard with a size of 11" x 8.5". This size of a form is normally not for laser printers but only for printers that have wide carriages, such as some dot-matrix and daisy wheel printers. The Standard form should be set up like this: Font Orient Init Offset Form type Size P L Pres Location Top Side Standard 8.5" x 11" Y Y Y Contin 0" 0" When you highlight the Standard form and press 3 (Edit), the screen should look like this: Form Type Standard 1 - Form Size 8.5" x 11" 2 - Orientation Portrait, Landscape 3 - Initially Present Yes 4 - Location Continuous 5 - Page Offsets - Top 0" Side 0" On all of the most common laser printers this is the way the Standard form must look in order to print landscape. STEP 2: Position the cursor at the top of the page which will be landscape. The general rule is that the paper size and type code must be the first code on the page. If there is text or certain codes before the paper size and type code, the code does not take effect until the next page. If the entire document is to be landscape, the paper size and type code will be the first code seen in Reveal Codes or it could be placed in Document Initial Codes. If part of the document is already portrait and the current page is landscape, that page should be separated from the rest of the document with Hard Page Breaks. If the landscape page is separated from previous pages with an [HPg] code, any future editing done on the previous pages will not affect the position of the paper size and type code on the landscape page. STEP 3: Select the paper size code in the document. After the cursor is in the right place to select the paper size and type code, press Shift-F8, 2 (Page), 8 (Paper Size and Type) 2 for 'Standard Landscape (11" x 8.5")', 1 for 'Standard', F7 to Exit back to the document screen. This will place a paper size and type code into the document and looks like this: [Paper Sz/Typ:11" x 8.5",Standard]. As a final note, any printer that is HP LaserJet Series II or compatible or older will only show landscape fonts when a landscape paper size is selected. These types of printers require the fonts be available in both portrait orientation and landscape orientation. For example, if there is a Times Roman 12pt font on a cartridge in portrait orientation, these printers will not print Times Roman 12pt in landscape unless the cartridge also has a landscape font on it. This memo deals with printing Standard Landscape documents on most laser printers including but not limited to HP LaserJet Series II, IID, IIP, III, IIID, IIIP, IIISi, Panasonic KX-P4450, KX-P4450i, KX-P4420, IBM 4019 LaserPrinter, IBM 4029 LaserPrinter, NEC Silentwriter printers, Okidata Okilaser 400, 800, 820, 840, Epson laser printers, Apple LaserWriter printers, Canon laser printers, and Xerox laser printers.

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