Re: [PRODIG] How do you print with no margins from a 1290?

[matthew ward]

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 07:51 AM, Shangara Singh wrote:

I did find a way! A glitch was throwing me off . When I booted the next day,
my custom setting for no margins appeared in the Paper Size pop-up menu. I
also had to select Any Printer rather than the installed 1290 - go figure,
as they say - before I could see my custom No Margins setting. I'm sure
there's some logic behind it but I'll be d***** if I can fathom it.

Thanks. Choosing the any printer option seems to be the key. The 1290 option only gives the pre set paper sizes which always has the 14mm trailing edge margin, you cannot get at the custom paper size options. You get all the options in the world to centre etc but you can only centre in the already offset printable area.

If you want to centre an image, try defining a custom paper size and at the
same time define the margins. I haven't tried it but it might work.

Works in Any printer, not in 1290 AFAIK

I guess it is a stripped down, can't be bothered to give it the same
specs as the OS 9, cut and shut, Friday afternoon sort of driver.

I'm not so sure about that. It seems to have the same options but laid out
differently. You can easily get caught out if you print from Photoshop,
though! <G>

Laid out differently! As in, when printing to a 1290 don't make the mistake (like I did) of choosing the 1290 option, choose any printer, then define everything.

Which preview? If I preview in Acrobat Reader, it takes only a few seconds
in OS X 10.2.3.

Still quite a lot slower than OS 9 though. A3, 20 secs plus time to fire up Acrobat reader in OS X.2.1, 10 secs for OS9.2.2

Matthew Ward

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