Hi,
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 12:22:17 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 3/07/21 3:58 am, Michael Lange wrote:
> > Or maybe the printer has some
> > sort of hard-wired margin on each side that it cannot print on and
> > that ought to be taken into account
>
> Yes, most printers have an unprintable area of a few mm, and
> it's not necessarily symmetrical. The manual would presumably
> tell you about it, if it hasn't succumbed to Manual Existence
> Failure over the years. :-)
the manual on the CD that came with the printer actually does.
According to the manual the margin is 3.4 mm left and right and 3.0 mm at
the top and 12.7 mm at the bottom for A4 paper.
If my calculation is correct this would put the horizontal center of the
printable area at 292.8 points. Since try-and-error experiments show that
290.2 is better, I assume that the precision of the manual is
probably limited.
Best regards
Michael
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