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From: Ken Keirnan
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 14:33

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In article <Apr.21.00.14.14.1988.20012@porthos.rutgers.edu> mende@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) writes:
>
>   Does anyone know how to have a postscript printer(laserwriter,
>QMS800, ...) to print to the *exact* edges of a page.  I have an
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Sorry Bob.  Because of the method used inside most (all?) desk top laser
printers to handle paper, there is an unprintable region around the paper
edges.  The following tiny postscript program will show you the printable
region for your printer:

	0 0 moveto
	clippath fill
	showpage

It (the program) will fill the printable region with black.  On some
laser printers it is frustrating to see just how much space around the
paper edges is unusable.

					Ken Keirnan
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Ken Keirnan -- Pacific Bell -- {ihnp4,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!pbhyf!kjk
  San Ramon, California			kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM

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From: kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan)
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Subject: Re: full page printing
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Date: 21 Apr 88 14:33:57 GMT
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