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HP DeskJet Printer Drivers Don't Support Inte |
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WordPerfect® 6.0 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: Users request that WP 6.0 DOS support the internal landscape fonts on the HP DeskJet 500 printer. The WP 6.0 DOS shipping printer driver for this printer does not support these fonts and users must use only graphical fonts in landscape orientation. Users request the support of internal landscape fonts to help speed up printing in landscape mode. Solutions: To avoid certain limitations on HP DeskJet printers (see below), WP 6.0 DOS does all landscape printing to HP DeskJet printers as portrait graphics, and therefore does not support the built-in landscape fonts on these printers. There are user-contributed printer drivers for the HP DeskJet, HP DeskJet Plus, HP DeskJet 500, and HP DeskJet 550C that support the internal landscape fonts on these printers. IMPORTANT NOTE: These user-contributed drivers have basically the same functionality as WP 5.1. Graphical fonts or graphics in landscape are not supported with these printer drivers. On the color models of HP DeskJet printers, these drivers support printing only text in color; color graphics and custom colors are not supported. How/Why: These are limitations of the printer(s). On all printers except the HP DeskJet 550C (and likely the 560 and 520), the printers ignore graphics information sent to them when they are in landscape mode. This is because, to do landscape printing, these printers must switch from being a line printer to a page printer. The internal buffer on these printers is small so the printer often cannot even do a full legal landscape page of text without running out of memory. Printing graphics simply is not possible in landscape mode on these printers. On the newest models of HP DeskJet printers, the buffer has been increased and it is also possible for these newer models to use the 256K memory cartridge for page information (HP DeskJet printers previous to the 550C model could use this memory cartridge for bitmap fonts only). Even with the extra memory plus the memory cartridge on the new printers, landscape graphics printing (while theoretically possible) is extremely limited, and WP does not support it. |
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