Where can I change the margins?

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Bruce Adams

Hi all, this is a fairly "vertical-market" question, but I'm having no joy
trying to figure it out on my own. I have a Brady HandiMark thermal label
printer. It prints onto 1/2" to 2" wide vinyl stock. Brady offers a serial
cable for about $25, and a print driver is available on their website. They
also sell a custom printing program for about $1000. When using the printer
through Word, it insists on a 1/2" margin. The printer's physical margin is
0.06". Undoubtedly, their custom software is able to use the full available
print area. A cynical person might suspect that they've somehow crippled the
print driver for all but their own software, but on the off-chance...
Does anyone have an idea where I might look for the setting that tells
Windows what the minimum margins are? I've tried playing with the
[printMinXExtent], etc. settings in the Registry (they were all originally
0) but it has no effect.
Thanks in advance,
Bruce
 
I don't know that I can be of much help other than supporting your theory,
as I have definitely seen printer vendors write their Windows drivers more
conservatively than the mechanism's limits.

I think I can pretty much assume you've done the setting all margins to zero
trick?

---WWE
 
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