In a message dated 12-09-97, Charles Jackson said to David Noon about
Printing / Memory Proble
Hi Charles,
CJ>I'm not too sure about this one, I don't think it's related to the
CJ>printer memory but I could be wrong.  WinWord 6.0 will print out bitmaps
CJ>just fine. I imported the BMP into a Word doc and it printed it.  That
CJ>would have been good enough, except WORD printed a graph paper like
CJ>background behind the picture which makes it look really shabby.
WinWord uses a metafile format for bitmaps. This makes life a little easier
for the print driver.
CJ>I tried printing a BMP from the paint brush program that only contains
CJ>one (1) pixel and it got the same error.  Warp 3.0 had no problem
CJ>printing any BMP files created by the same program and on the same
CJ>printer.
Which seems to indicate a software setting is at fault.
CJ>How would one go about telling a printer driver how much memory the
CJ>printer has installed anyway?
It is usually under Options|Advanced, at least on Lexmark and HP driver
setup dialogues. Panasonic should follow that standard, but then ...
CJ>I think it has a 4k print buffer if this is the memory you refer to.  It
CJ>will only expand to a 32k print buffer.
Probably not what I'm referring to. Modern printers usually have large
expanses of DRAM in which to store resources (fonts, overlays, etc.) and PDL
(Print Description Language, such as PCL5 or PostScript). This is used to
render the print image for the printer's raster scan.
CJ>I don't think this is the
CJ>problem, I used the very same printer to print very large BMP files
CJ>under Warp 3.0 using the very same program.
Your printer hardware is adequate, but has not been adequately described to
its driver, I think. Have you checked your printer manual to determine
exactly which form of memory the messages refers to?
Regards
Dave

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