At 14:56 -0700 2003-09-23, I wrote:
> Another Web page
><http://www.techbase.iofm.net/tips/applemac/tip28.htm> suggests this
>paper size may be a workaround for the margin characteristics of
>non-Apple PostScript printers:
>
>> The default paper size for the LaserWriter 8.4 changed from the
>>standard US Letter option to US Letter Small. The change has
>>nothing to do with the paper size, but rather the fact that many
>>printers that utilize the LaserWriter printer software have smaller
>>margins than most of the Apple printers.
>
> Presumably those smaller margins on non-Apple printers might have
>occasionally resulted in pages being clipped or wrapped, depending
>on the size of the imageable page areas on those printers, so the US
>Letter Small setting might have been set as the default to improve
>users' default printing experience ...
A correction to my last paragraph above: defaulting to the US
Letter Small paper size seems to have been Apple's attempt to improve
users' printing experiences when printing the same documents on
different PostScript printers.
Users who printed first on certain non-Apple printers, then
attempted to print the same documents on Apple printers with smaller
imageable areas, might have been seeing their documents clipped or
wrapped when printed on the Apple printers.
Apple seems to have decided that by specifying generously large
margins, pages using the US Letter Small page size would print
without unwanted clipping or wrapping on just about any PostScript
printer capable of accepting US Letter-sized paper, including
(especially) its own printers.
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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