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Re: Educate me on Printing

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pac?ell.ne?> Oct 18, 2007
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George Walters wrote:
> 
> 
> I thought I new how to print in windows using Win32 but apparently I don't
> know...or I'm missing the point all together.
> 
> I've been using this
> 
> fontSize = getFontSize( Printer ) -- get the font metrics
> 
> and spacing down the page like this
> 
>     line += 1
>     setPosition(Printer,0,line*fontSize[2])
>     wPuts(Printer,"stuff")
> 
> where line is the line number down the page
> 
> The problem is I get different spacing from printer to printer as you go down.
> the page. The laser does one thing and the inkjet is different. So I can't
> fill
> in forms consistently (like labels for addresses etc)
> 
> Can someone explain how to make a printer output the same from one to the
> other?

Hello George,

I sent you two Avery label programs.

And I never heard from you. Did you test them?

If you did then you see that each has two columns.

Computer Generated and Tweak.

You can change the tweak of:

top label 

space between labels,

left liable

spaces between,etc...

Because when all is said and done things don't always work perfect.

Printers (pressmen) call it registration.

Once the tweak is set you don't have to change it again.

Of course if you change printers then you might have to re-tweak.

Don Cole