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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 08:58:40 -0400
From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
Subject: Re: HP 970CSe Printing Problems References: <cJVx7.42756$dO3.3837950@news20.bellglobal.com>

"Alyssa, Jay & Tracy Kingston" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have an HP 970CSe Deskjet that is connected to a server running SCO
> OpenServer 5.0.5a via a HP JetDirect box (300X). I have been able to get the
> printer working (thanks to all the advice from the previous posts) as a
> standard model printer. However, I have two additional problems. The client
> uses WordPerfect 5.1 for Unix and Lotus 1-2-3 (version 1.1) for Unix. I am
> having problems getting either of the programs to work properly.
> 
> In the case of Lotus, the program advances the paper 6 lines between the
> completion of one job and the commencement of the next. It appears as though
> there needs to be some sort of initialization sequence after the print job
> is finished.

Actually, that sounds more like a disagreement about page length.  The
Laserjet is probably set for 60 lines per page and the Lotus assumes it
is 66.  There are escape sequences that can change that: 
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl02705.html#P156_3162

> 
> I haven't looked at the WordPerfect problem yet, although I expect that it
> has something to do with a special program that WP supplied to run in order
> to configure the printer. Any help or suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.

WordPerfect does indeed do its own thing with printers- it uses the
standard interfaces, but it modifies them with a special WordPerfect
header that reroutes WP jobs to its own spooler control and then (if I
remember right- and I may not!) back again when WP decides it's really
OK to print.  Regardless of the details that I can't remember due to
senility and the passage of time, the setup of printers is covered in
the Manual and I *think* that you just need to be the root user and add
a printer through WP itself- you get to select the system spooler, it
modifies the interface for you, and that's it- my memory is vague on the
details, but  that's the gist of it.

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