Re: Envelope #10 and HP 1522nf Printer Margins

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:33:32AM -0500, fred smith wrote:
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>On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:12:53AM -0900, Roger wrote:
>>
>
>I dunno if this is in response to my posting a few days ago about envelope
>printing in Abiword or not, but...

Nope, it's a new post by me.

>> Here's what I have to do to create an envelope within Abiword with proper
>> margins for printing on Envelope #10 media. Although I'm seeing better success
>> printing envelopes with Abiword vs. OpenOff, Abiword pushes the margins
>> slightly to the right on envelope printing on my HP 1522nf laser printer.
>>
>> (OpenOff would force margins too far to the left, etc, but finally got it
>> working by changing the print direction buttons to non-standard options. After
>
>Odd, I have no trouble printing a #10 envelope, at all, with OOo. I choose
>#10 envelope paper size, set to landscape, tweak the margins a little
>(to make the gap at the top and left edge smaller), then start typing.
>once I'm done I hand-feed an envelope, hit print, and voila. I've done
>this on my Brother laser at home and several bigger HP laserjets at
>work. The particular printer I was using with abiword is a HP Laserjet
>1200, and I don't recall if I've ever used OOo with it for envelope
>printing.
>
>But, thanks for the recipe you've found to work with Abiword, I'll give
>it a try.

There's an open OOo bug concerning printing envelopes. Some have luck, others
don't. The bug has been open for year(s) now, and those that are lucky figure
how to set the incorrect settings to get better desirable results.

No matter how much I played with the margins in of the envelopes in OOo (whether
specifying before creating the envelope or within the editor itself), I would
always get terrible results. Now I have a newer HP MFD printer and things are
better. The problem printer was an HP 2600n using foo2zjs.

After regressing to using favorite VIM editor for awhile and figuring out what I
truly need for writing letters, I now realize I'm much happier with less eye candy
such as using Abiword. ;-)

-- 
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
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