Colin, Sorry it's taken me this long to get back to you on this issue.
I have installed a WinNT 4.0 system under Virtual PC and have done some experimenting with it. However, without actually having your printer connected I can only do so much testing here. So you'll need to try some things on your end. First of all, we need to determine whether Windows NT itself is able to print correctly to the printer's full width using the driver you have installed. I would start by creating a custom form size in your Windows print server that reflects your exact paper size. Click Start | Settings | Printers. Then click on the File menu, and then the Server Properties option. On the Forms tab you should see a long list of paper sizes. We want to add your custom size to this list. Check the 'Create a New Form' box and then type in a name for it where it says 'Form Description for:'. Perhaps something like 'Custom 345mm x 215 mm'. Now select Metric for the units and specify 34.5cm as the width and 21.5cm as the height. You can also specify the minimum margins here if you want to. Click on the 'Save Form' button to save your new custom form size to the list and then click on OK. Now try creating a document with a Windows word processor (or even WordPad) using your selected printer and that new custom page size and some appropriate margin settings, with text that runs all the way across. See if it can print all the way across the full width. If you can print full width with the word processor, that tells us that the driver should be ok and I'll look further into the DPSpool code to see if I can track down what's going wrong with DPSpool. But if even the word processor can't print to the full width, that tells us that it's a driver issue. Tim Rude _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
