[SunRescue] Postscript mousepad found!

[Kurt Huhn]

The movement I was able to get was mostly up/down, no side-to-side.  It
"shook" side to side, but didn't actually travel very much and always ended
up back on center.  I could make it go up/down reliably by placing a plastic
CD-ROM sleave on top of the paper - but that was the extent of my success.
I'm playing with line weight and spacing at this point to see if it makes a
difference.

Kurt
kurthuhn at k-huhn.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Freestone <kyle at rawah.co.larimer.co.us>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Postscript mousepad found!


>> From: "Kurt Huhn" <kurthuhn at k-huhn.com>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:23:14 -0800
>>
>> Interesting.  How did you print it out?  What type of paper - I don 't
seem
>> to be having any luck here.  I printed it on regular copy paper using an
HP
>> Laserjet 5L.  I have *some* luck if I lay a piece of shiny plastic over
the
>> paper - but very sporadic movement.
>>
>
>It sounds like we're getting similar results.  I printed it to an HP
>LaserJet 5N PostScript printer on regular bond paper.  The original
>printout actually worked as well, if not better, than the reduced copies.
>I attributed that to photocopier degradation of the image.  Even the
>original had somewhat "sporadic movement" - but it did move reliably
>*...kind of*.  I tried placing the printout under an 1/8" sheet of
plexiglass
>- didn't move a millimeter.  possibly too thick of plastic/distortion
>
>>From: Paul Khoury - Tech Support <pkhoury3 at earthlink.net>
>>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:43:32 -0800
>>
>>I didn't get any movement at all, and I too printed on an LJ 5L on regular
>>generic paper.
>>
>
>Had to stop and try it again -just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating
>yep, it works... the movement is jerky and relational to the scale of the
grid.
>i.e. it takes a few hand shuffles to move the cursor vary far on my 20"
>monitor
>Don't know what the difference is.  The mouse says "Model: Type 5
>SUN No: 370-1398-04"  the pad is the one at
>http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/sun3mousepad.html
>
>Good Luck!!!
>
>
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