Re: Appleworks Printer Support

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <C8o66D.7M@well.sf.ca.us>, Joe Kohn writes...
> 
> AppleWorks doesn't need a patcher to support more printers. That's what
> the custom printer is for. Just go into that, and enter the codes from
> your printer manual for things like underlining, subscripts, etc and
> you'll be all set.

    The custom printer doesn't quite go far enough in some instances.  I
have yet to find a decent setup for my Canon BJ-10ex, even in Epson LQ
emulation mode.  Does anyone have one (anybody from NAUG here?) 
AppleWorks always seems to send out one particular code before starting
a print job.  On my printer, a capital "A" appears at the top of the
page, misaligning the first line.  To fix this I have to issue a "Reset
Printer" command at the beginning of each document, and that means I
need to manually insert a top margin and header for the first page. 
Things like double-wide and double-high don't work too well either since
AppleWorks is not aware of the change in size of the font.  Proportional
printing is also a hassle since AppleWorks expects ImageWriter II
spacing.  The result is a very jagged right margin.  Full justification
does not seem to work either (no microspacing).  Does NAUG have a
solution for this?