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PAGE ORIENTATION
You might reasonably think of page orientation as a page formatting issue.
To print words widthwise on a page, however, each letter in effect has to lie
on its back. So orientation is actually a font attribute, and is treated as such
later on in this chapter.
Page Length
The paper tray you have installed sets the default page size for your laser
printer. When you want a different size, and when you change the tray, you’ll
need to reset that page size. You should always change the page length before
you send text for printing. The Page Length command sets the number of
lines that can print on a page (lines per inch times the number of inches).
The Page Length command format is:
<ESC> &z/n P
where n is the number of text lines on the page; it can be any number between
5 and 128.
The default number of lines is the length of the paper tray times 6 lines per
inch. For 11 -inch letter-size paper that works out to 66 lines (that’s also the
default when you haven’t put in a tray).
If you don’t want the default length, you should send the Page Length
command before you send text for printing. The table below should help you
pick the right number of lines. Decide which orientation and paper size you
want, then use the n under your preferred lines/inch:
ORIENTATION PAPER SIZE
@ 6 LINES/INCH ’ @ 6 LINESANCH
Portrait Executive
60 80
Portrait Letter
66 88
Portrait A4
70
93
Portrait
w@
84
112
Landscape
Executive
43 58
I--dscape
Letter
51 68
Landscape A4
49 66
Landscape
md
*
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* Printing landscapes onlegal paper is trickier. First set on portrait mode and
send the command &SC> &/84P and then change the orientation to
landscape
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