Conference 7.286::ansi_printing

2252.0. "LA600 top margin not set" by BACHUS::VANDEWEYER (Dirk DTN 856-7750) Mon Mar 03 1997 04:16

Does anyone out there know about the following strange LA600 behaviour?
One of our customers prints to an LA600  with a form that has a top margin of
6 lines (LA_D30N). This works fine.
He now prints with a form that has a top margin of 4 lines (LA_D30N4)and
the job comes out incorrectly with a top margin of 6 lines (instead of 4).
The second job he prints , using the same form (LA_D30N4), prints correct with
a top margin of 4 lines. 
  
The reverse, that is increasing the top margin, works correctly.

As a temporary workaround we suggested to delete the vertical margin from 
the setup module and to put it in the form definition, wich works fine. 


$ sh que/full LAT_KARL2
Terminal queue LAT_KARL2, idle, on DBC439::LTA902:, mounted form LA_D30N4TOP
 (stock=DEFAULT)
  /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=DEFAULT) Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM] 
  /PROCESSOR=PRTSMB /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) /RETAIN=ERROR

Form and setup module used by customer, top=6, bottom=1

$  sh que/form LA_D30N/full
Form name                            Number   Description
---------                            ------   -----------
LA_D30N (stock=DEFAULT)                 696   LA_D30N
    /LENGTH=66 /MARGIN=(BOTTOM=1) /SETUP=(LA_MA15_6N) /STOCK=DEFAULT /TRUNCATE 
    /WIDTH=132

 Setup module  LA_MA15_6N contains $ <CSI>9w<CSI>1z<CSI>11;0s<CSI>6;0r<CR>

  


Form used by customer, top=4, bottom=1

$ sh que/form LA_D30N4/full
Form name                            Number   Description
---------                            ------   -----------
LA_D30N4 (stock=DEFAULT)                694   LA_D30N4
    /LENGTH=66 /MARGIN=(BOTTOM=1) /SETUP=(LA_MA15_4N) /STOCK=DEFAULT /TRUNCATE 
    /WIDTH=132

 Setup module  LA_MA15_4N contains $ <CSI>9w<CSI>1z<CSI>11;0s<CSI>4;0r<CR>



Proposed workaround:

$ sh que/form/full LA_D30N4TOP
Form name                            Number   Description
---------                            ------   -----------
LA_D30N4TOP (stock=DEFAULT)             664   LA_D30N4TOP
    /LENGTH=66 /MARGIN=(TOP=4,BOTTOM=1) /SETUP=(LA_MA15_4N_TOP) /STOCK=DEFAULT 
    /TRUNCATE /WIDTH=132

 Setup module  LA_MA15_4N_top contains $ <CSI>9w<CSI>1z<CSI>11;0s



$ sh que/form/full LA_D30N6TOP
Form name                            Number   Description
---------                            ------   -----------
LA_D30N6TOP (stock=DEFAULT)             666   LA_D30N6TOP
    /LENGTH=66 /MARGIN=(TOP=6,BOTTOM=1) /SETUP=(LA_MA15_6N_TOP) /STOCK=DEFAULT 
    /TRUNCATE /WIDTH=132

 Setup module  LA_MA15_6n contains $ <CSI>9w<CSI>1z<CSI>11;0s


<CSI>9w set horizontal pitch 480 centipoints
<CSI>1z set vertical pitch 1200 centipoints
<CSI>11;0s set left and right margins
<CSI>6;0r set top and bottom margins

The customers LA600 and the one we've used have both version 1.0-00 firmware.