On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: > My first thought is that over many years of printing with Windows and > Linux to various laser printers the one thing that is a constant PITA is > getting the page orientation right.
John, At a time in the not-too-distant past something changed, perhaps in CUPS, and it took a couple of mis-prints to learn that rather than feeding pages face up leading with the top (e.g., laser business checks), I needed to feed them face down and toe first. Shrug. So that's what I learned to do. > As for specifically printing envelopes, I would start by making sure that > the driver lists #10 envelope as an option. If not (or even if it does) > you need a different driver. I have a LJ4+ and there are so many different > drivers available for it that it makes me dizzy. I imagine the LJ5 is the > same, since these printers are very popular in spite of their age. There are options in LO that I have not explored. The default is left-right, top-bottom. Perhaps that needs to be changed. I'll go play with this after I resolve the problem of not being able to print directly from LO since the pstorastorizer fails. Sigh. > I never print envelopes on my LJ4+ because I find the curl unacceptable. > Instead, I created an envelope template where the inside address is > positioned perfectly for a window envelope. With so much business communications being sent as .pdf attachments to e-mail messages I rarely send a snail-mail letter anymore. That's true for most of us which is one reason the USPS keeps asking for more money for postage. Regardless, when I do write letters I use LaTeX; LyX, actually. Years ago I modified the KOMA-Script letter2 document class to produce a US-standard business letter rather than the default German standard. I just learned how to modify that for the LyX-2.x versions. With minor tweaking of position, the recipients name and address appear in the envelope window, just like my A/P checks do. So, now that I know this I don't need to futz with LO in printing envelopes. But, I'd still like to fix that just in case. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
