HP PaintJet - Color Printing Is Slow

DocumentID: 645519
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:07 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is using the HP PaintJet color printer. The customer created a document that alternates between black and blue text. One line of text will be black, the next line of text will be blue, etc. When the printer reaches the blue lines, the printer will print one word, return to the left margin, print the next word, then return to the left margin, and so on for the entire line. Since the HP PaintJet makes three passes over colored lines, this process is extremely slow. The customer wants to know if this is just the way the printer works or if there is something wrong with the driver. Solutions: The HP PaintJet prints slow due to the printer hardware and the codes that WP is sending for correct printer movement with graphics and text. For printing color, WP is sending the printer into a graphics mode. This causes the printer to return to the left margin for every space seen when printing any line in any other color than black. In WP 5.0, a space fill printer driver was used which did print colors faster, but gave a roundoff error with the alignment of the text.

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