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Line Draw On The Panasonic KX-P4450 |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Solutions: Slow printing With early releases (04/12/90 or earlier) of the WP printer driver for the Panasonic KX-P4450, Line Draw could take a very long time to print. This problem was caused by the printer not having a built-in printer font for Line Draw; thus, WP created Line Draw graphically. In WP 5.0 the Line Draw 10 pitch (HP+ D/S Line Draw character set) is a selectable font for the Panasonic KX-P4450 but not in WP 5.1. The WP 5.0 font's character set is a bitmapped set, meaning that instead of having an ASCII value assigned to each character, it has the printer codes necessary for the printer to draw (or bitmap) each character. WP 5.0 just sends the codes, and the printer draws the character. WP 5.1 is able to create characters graphically if they do not reside in the current font's character set. In both cases WP draws the line draw characters if they do not belong to the printer font's character set. Starting with the 06/22/90 release of the printer driver, the Line Draw font is in the printer driver because it proved to print faster. Customers previously could copy the Line Draw fonts from WP 5.0 printer divers to WP 5.1 printer drivers to increase the printing speed; however, this process is no longer needed. Customers should update to the new printer drivers if they would like to increase the Line Draw printing speed. Memory Problems The earlier printer drivers (before the Line Draw font was included in the printer driver) also had other problems. Because WP was creating the fonts graphically, a full page of Line Draw would take a lot of memory. Many times only part of the page would print. Panasonic recommends a memory upgrade for the Panasonic KX-P4450, and the new printer drivers will also help a little in this situation. Line Draw on the Base Font List With newer releases of the Panasonic KX-P4450 printer driver, the Line Draw font is no longer available on the Base Font list. However, it is still available for Automatic Font Changes and the Line Draw feature. The Line Draw font does not contain any alphabetic characters. If the customer chose this font, printing the alphabetic characters would be extremely slow which is the reason the developers removed it from the Base Font list. If customers would like to have the Line Draw font back on the list, follow these steps: 1. At a DOS prompt in the directory containing the printer files and PTR Program, type PTR, and press Enter. 2. When the empty box appears, press Shift-F10 and F5. 3. The bottom of the screen will read "Filename Pattern: 4. Highlight the WPHP2.ALL file, and press Enter twice 5. Move to the Panasonic KX-P4450 printer, and press Enter. 6. Move to Fonts and press Enter. 7. HP IIP Line Draw will be highlighted, press Enter. 8. Choose the size (10cpi, 12cpi, or 16.67cpi) of Line Draw the customer wants to show up on the font list, and highlight it; the (lg) etc following the font name is not important. 9. Move to Miscellaneous Questions, and press Enter. 10. Highlight Use for AFCs only, and press Backspace to remove the asterisk (*). 11. Press Alt-F7. 12. Answer Yes to the question: Save File? 13. Press Enter on the .ALL filename, and answer Yes to replace the file. 14. Exit the PTR Program. 15. Enter WP, press Shift-F7, S, be sure you are on the right printer selection, and choose 7. Note: WPCorp does not support these changes. The operator should enter an Enhancement Request for the customer, so WPCorp can keep track of how many people would like this change. The operator that helps the customer with these changes is responsible for supporting the changes in the printer driver. An STR should not be written if there is a problem with this setup, as it is not supported. Line Draw Not Lining Up With the 08/20/90 release of the printer driver, vertical line draw characters would not line up. This problem was repaired in the 11/09/90 release of the printer driver. Horizontal lines also left gaps or spaces between each character; this problem was fixed in the 11/13/92 release of the printer driver. |
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