Thanks for the clarification and correction. BTW, I also had a mis-conception about this printer. I presumed it was an obsolete derelict. This printer is still in production and buy-able today (~$650 list on the US Epson site) . Oh again. Dot-matrix lives. (Now I'm waiting for an API question about daisywheel printers...)
On 9/13/05, Doug Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > You are partially correct. The printing problems with OOo tend to be > the result of incorrectly implementing the printer driver APIs in many > cases, or so I've been told by the developers in response to filed > issues. I have encountered and written up numerous problems, the most > exciting of which was printing to a Xerox 860DP which modified many of > the properties of the document and automatically saved the modified version. > > Doug > > john geldman wrote: > > Unfortunetly, I think you hit it when you said "simple" text editors. > > Try printing a pdf (the adobe reader is free). For instance save one > > of your OOo documents as a pdf, and print that pdf from adobe. > > > > Most of the printing heavy lifting is in the printer driver, not > > applications like OOo. > > > > Of course, I could be wrong. But this test will help divide & conquer. > > > > Good luck > > > > > > On 9/13/05, Kurniawan (EDP) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Dear all, > >> > >>Printing from OOo using a dot-matrix printer (in our case, Epson > >>LQ-2180), either using the Windows or Linux version of OOo, only gives a > >>partial output (only around 3/4 part from the left margin is printed, a > >>quarter of the page on the right side is blank). > >>I've been searching the forums but couldn't find a solution to this > >>problem. Maybe I haven't gone through the pile of information in > >>detail... > >> > >>BTW, using a simple text editor from Linux or other applications from > >>Windows, this problem doesn't exist. And using inkjet or laser printers > >>isn't producing the problem either, so something is troubling from within > >>OOo. > >> > >>Can anyone help please? > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Kurnia > >> > >>PS.: OOo version: 1.1.2, 1.1.4 and 1.9.122. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >>No virus found in this outgoing message. > >>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > >>Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.23/99 - Release Date: 9/12/2005 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
