Re: envelope topography: failed printer selection

["Mark D. Szuchman" <szuchman@nospam.fiu.edu>]

Joel,
Printer settings should have nothing to do with NBW. By contrast, DOS
programs handled printer settings with drivers of their own. Windows
applications respond to system-based printer settings. In my office, I
print from NBW to different printers; regardless of printers, the
output variables (location, duplex, and other settings) are not
conditioned by NBW or by any other Windows application. 
Mark

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:43:28 -0600 (CST), Joel Lidov wrote:

>Sometime after my last grumbling on envelope printing I realized that the 
>reversal of 
>the envelope printing I described corresponded to the difference in way the 5L 
>and 6P 
>take paper (from the top vs. from the front).  In other words, although I had 
>selected 
>and used the 6P printer from the print menu before invoking the envelope 
>printing 
>routine (which does not have its own access to printer setup), the envelope 
>subprogram was using the the 5L settings that were in effect when the session 
>started 
>(NBW remembers the last used setting, it doesn't use the Windows default).  
>When I 
>quit NBW and restarted (with  6P as the initial setting), the envelope routine 
>acted 
>properly.
>
>In sum:  I could not change the printer selection for envelopes after starting 
>NB.  The 
>initial setting sticks.  Can anyone who has more than one printer installed 
>(with 
>different paper feeding) confirm this as a bug?
>
>Joel
>
>