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from: `Marcus H. Russell, P.E., L.S.`
date: 2004-08-27 12:41:08
subject: Re: New printer won`t do landscape :-(

And this is why I print envelopes in PC Write, an old DOS program.  Mark

Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>In , on 08/27/2004 
>   at 07:37 AM, "Julian Thomas"  said:
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>  
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>>I replaced my LJ4p with a LJ1200 (much faster, and has PS capability). 
>>However:
>>    
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>>I am unable to print an envelope that I had previously printed on the 4P
>>by putting it in sideways on the left of the paper feed.  Now when I try
>>to print, it cusses at me saying that "the orientation of the document
>>page is the opposite of the printer form".  If I bull my way
ahead (using
>>regular paper) it prints the address on 2 pages.  Using printer setup
>>(from describe) I can't get landscape to stick.
>>    
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>  
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>>Any ideas?  I'm using the laserjet driver (probably the one that came
>>with ecs 1.1) and did not reinstall the driver.
>>    
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>
>Julian
>
>     See if this hint help you any.
>
>          The name of this file is:  ecs11phase4c
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>     Go ahead and install the printer driver at this time.
>
>     However, if you have a Laser printer, you want to go to the IBM
>Device Driver repository and download the "laser printer"
drivers for your
>printer and them install the specific driver for your printer as an update
>to the default install.
>
>     My experience is that the eCS installer work very nicely to install
>the printer driver.  I could not get the driver I downloaded from the IBM
>Device Driver repository to install.  It was very easy to install them
>over the default driver.
>
>     Let me explain why.
>
>     I have an HP Laser Jet III.  I use IBM Works to print addresses on
>envelopes.  The device driver eCS installs is incapable of doing the job.
>
>     The general purpose drivers contained in eCS are capable of printing
>in 2 formats:
>                        1. Portrait
>
>                        2. Landscape
>
>     The "laser printer" device drivers are capable of printing in 3
>formats:
>                        1. Portrait
>
>                        2. Landscape
>
>                        3. Landscape - Rotated
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>     You have been advised.
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>     Printer driver updates are free to all at
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>     http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/index.htm
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