You can now send your letter from your word processing program to the
printerand feedin those pages. When you’re done, youmay want to sendthe
<ESC> Ecommand one more time.
4.3 PAGE ORIENTATION
You might reasonably thinkof page orientation as apage formatting issue.
To printwords widthwise on apage, however, each letter in effect has to lie
on itsback. So orientation is actually afont attribute, and is treated as such
later on inthis chapter.
4,3.1 Page Length
Themulti-purpose traysets thedefault page size foryour laserprinter. When
you want adifferent size, you’ll need to reset that page size. You should
always change thepage length be@-e you send text for printing. The Page
Length command setsthe number of lines that can print on apage (lines per
inch times the number of inches).
The Page Length command format is:
<ESC> &~nP
wherenis thenumber of textlines onthe page;it canbe any number between
5and 128.
The defaultnumber of lines is the length of the paper tray times 6lines per
inch.For 11-inch letter-sizepaper that works out to 66 lines (that’s also the
default when you haven’t put in atray).
If you don’t want the default length, you should send the Page Length
command bejtire you send text for printing. The table below should help
you pickthe right number of lines. Decide which orientation and paper size
you want, thenuse the nunder your preferred lines/inch:
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