[PLUG] LJ5 Envelope Printing

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> My first thought is that over many years of printing with Windows and
> Linux to various laser printers the one thing that is a constant PITA is
> getting the page orientation right.

John,

   At a time in the not-too-distant past something changed, perhaps in CUPS,
and it took a couple of mis-prints to learn that rather than feeding pages
face up leading with the top (e.g., laser business checks), I needed to feed
them face down and toe first. Shrug. So that's what I learned to do.

> As for specifically printing envelopes, I would start by making sure that
> the driver lists #10 envelope as an option. If not (or even if it does)
> you need a different driver. I have a LJ4+ and there are so many different
> drivers available for it that it makes me dizzy. I imagine the LJ5 is the
> same, since these printers are very popular in spite of their age.

   There are options in LO that I have not explored. The default is
left-right, top-bottom. Perhaps that needs to be changed. I'll go play with
this after I resolve the problem of not being able to print directly from LO
since the pstorastorizer fails. Sigh.

> I never print envelopes on my LJ4+ because I find the curl unacceptable.
> Instead, I created an envelope template where the inside address is
> positioned perfectly for a window envelope.

   With so much business communications being sent as .pdf attachments to
e-mail messages I rarely send a snail-mail letter anymore. That's true for
most of us which is one reason the USPS keeps asking for more money for
postage.

   Regardless, when I do write letters I use LaTeX; LyX, actually. Years ago
I modified the KOMA-Script letter2 document class to produce a US-standard
business letter rather than the default German standard. I just learned how
to modify that for the LyX-2.x versions. With minor tweaking of position,
the recipients name and address appear in the envelope window, just like my
A/P checks do. So, now that I know this I don't need to futz with LO in
printing envelopes. But, I'd still like to fix that just in case.

Thanks,

Rich