[pchelpers] Re: Printer driving friend mad

Aye Scott, been there thought of all that.................even the bloke in 
the shop when she exchanged it looked at her as if she was insane.  She is 
going to phone Avery today. I told her a stop gap, to adjust the top margin 
in page set up to suit the difference in the print margin but even then she 
says the faulted printing isn't consistent in it's error. I suggested she 
had a bad batch of labels, but she'd bought them in two different places.

So there you are.

Billy


> I was thinking that it might be auto-sensing the paper, and upon
> detecting thick paper, adjusting its' settings, although that sounds a
> bit far-fetched now that I think about it a bit more -- one doesn't
> want something printed in a different spot simply because someone got
> some better or cheaper paper.  And you already said that she printed
> on the back of a sheet of labels.
>
> Hmm, you might check to see if she's only printing one page at a time,
> or if she's printing several pages of a single document, putting a
> test page in first, and then, because it looks good, putting in a page
> of real labels for page 2. If the document alignment is off (so that
> the second page is shifted or the page size is wrong), then it'll be
> off when printed also.  On the other hand, you say it works fine with
> the old printer.
>
> It could be a paper-pickup problem, but that idea sounds a bit dubious
> if she's had two of the same model do it.
>
> -- 
> Scott.



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