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Dot-Matrix - Line Draw Printing Time Extremely Slow |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Using the Line Draw feature with a dot-matrix printer is very slow. |
Answer:
Most dot-matrix printers do not support Line Draw internally, this causes WordPerfect to use the .DRS file to create line draw characters. Unfortunately, because of the way the characters are created and sent to the printer, this causes the printing to be quite slow. The best options for customers having this problem is to use tables or graphic lines which print much faster due to the difference in the way that they are created. This is a limitation of the printers character map, and printing characters graphically is simply a workaround that WP uses. WP50 used a bitmapped line draw font that was created to do any line drawing. WP51 has eliminated that font because it now generates its own. This however will slow down the print speed. |
Details:
The characters are being created graphically, which causes printing time for each document to be 7-10 minutes. The long printing time is not acceptable. With Graphics Quality set to "Do Not Print," Line Draw would not even view. The Character Mapping in the PTR Program for the Epson compatible driver, does not have the Line Draw characters mapped. In WP50 you could select Line Draw 10 pitch. In WP51 it is not there. Also , problems with the computer locking quite often when it is using line draw. NOTE: This situation may appear on Epson, Panasonic, Okidata, Star and any other Epson compatible printer using the original Epson character map. However, the list of printers that might display this problem would be too long to display in this memo. Please check to see if the Line Draw characters are mapped for the printer driver selected. (An easy way to check is to enter View Document (Shift-F6, 6) with Graphics set to Do Not Print. If the Line Draw characters in the document do not appear in View Document, the characters are not mapped. |
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