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In <4q5uo1$382@chuckie.apana.org.au> braddock@labrador.apana.org.au (Reg Braddock) writes:

>In article <4q443f$ijt@al.imforei.apana.org.au>, 
>pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au says...
>>
>>Adam Frey (adam@eden.apana.org.au) wrote:
>>: In <4q3l1u$5od@chuckie.apana.org.au> braddock@labrador.apana.org.au (Reg 
>Bra
>>ddock) writes:
>>
>>: >I have an incredibly irritating problem - the printing on each
>>: >successive page is 10mm further down the page than the last page.  The
>>: >result is that, after only a few pages, the output spews across
>>: >sheets.
>>
>>[cut]
>>
>>: I suffered with this problem for about a year and a half. It was present
>>: under OS/2, Linux and FreeBSD. The simple answer is that neither the 10e
>>: nor the 200 modes in ghostscript are properly compatible with the 330.
>>
>>: If there is a solution other than using a different printer, I never found
>>: it.
>>
>> Check the config files for ghostscript looking for the a4 paper size
>> definition.... when you find it you'll see it describes the size
>> in some wierd measurement... now check exactly what a a4 page *should*
>> be and what your printer is printing... and scale the number and
>> create a new page size definition.
>>
>> Should work.

>Hi Peter,


>It hasn't worked so far :(  I think my next printer purchase will be 
>postscript to save pissing around.

have you tried:
latex myfile.tex
dvips -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi
gs -sDEVICE=epsonc -sOUPUTFILE=myfile.epc -<myfile.ps
lpr myfile.epc		??

This should work. It will not be the best output... but that's all I came up
with when I was using the bj330.
Good luck.
Cheers,

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