"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
>
> Sorry to ask a WordPerfect-specific question on the list, but Corel's site is
> no help and I don't have time to mess with usenet.
>
> My printer is an HP DeskJet 672C and works fine in Mandrake, but has some
> problems in WordPerfect. WP does not have a driver for the 670 series of
> printers, but it has several DeskJet drivers that are supposed to be
> compatible (500, 540, 550C, 850C, etc.) according to the 672C's manual. It
> does print with those drivers, but has some problems. With the 550C driver and
> any number lower, it prints with the top part of much of the text cut off. For
> example if I try to print:
>
> "Test"
>
> it prints looking something like:
>
> "____"
>
> Because only the bottoms of the letters are actually being printed.
>
> Using the higher number drivers (e.g. 850C), it doesn't have the problem I just
> mentioned, but instead has the problems of some characters--particularly the
> quotes, i.e. " and '--showing up as different characters. I've tried every
> printer listed as being compatible in my printer's manual, and all of them
> print with one of the problems I described. Is there any way to fix that?
>
> -Tom
Setup WordPerfect to use Passthru Postscript for a printer and it'll use
the same printer drivers that you use for normal printing. In some
cases, there's a large difference in the quality also (at least there
was when I was using my Epson dot-matrix about a year ago).
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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