HOW TO PRINT A FULL PAGE OF TEXT AND GRAPHICS IN HIGH RESOLUTION ON A LASER PRINTER WITHOUT RUNNING OUT OF MEMORY (PHEW!).

This tips comes to us from GWRepJohnK (John, you're smart and sneaky!! Thanks!).

Question :  I have a laser printer, but it only has 512 K of memory and I can't afford an upgrade to 1 MG, but a full page printout is really important to me. How can I get a full page printed in high resolution?

Well, if you are in GeoDraw, what I have been doing is to simply break the document into components that will print. For example.  I did an advertising layout for my employer the other day.. and it was a full 8.5 x 11 page of text and graphics.  Well, it would only print about 3/4 of it at once.. before running out of memory.

So, I CUT some graphics and text and printed it once.  Then, replaced those graphics and text where they were, and CUT the things that had just printed, and then, reprinted the page, with the same piece of paper back in the paper tray again.  VOILA - a full page.  Needless to say, you should have 20 lb paper minimum to be doing this with.. cheaper 16 or 18 pound *might* catch in the printer on the second pass.  But I have never experienced this.

Another tip - if you want to preview a full page of text and graphics, but don't want to go to all that bother, what I do, is fuse the full page in GeoDraw, then - shrink and rotate it, till it takes up 1/2 the page at the top in a landscape type positioning. (Ie sideways) And then print this way.  This is also useful for making a four page insert or flyer from (1)  8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Of course, for GeoWrite documents, I copy them into GeoDraw then pull these tricks on them.  Hope this is useful to somebody.