cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) (10/05/86)
Sorry if this has been asked before; Does anyone have any tips on getting the Canon PJ-1080A inkjet printer to work with Deluxe Paint? I refuse to write on my protected DPaint. I got a disk with installed 1080A driver from Progressive Peripherals, labeled with "'CANON WORKBENCH' for DPAINT etc." but it seems flaky? By the way I run Rel 1.1 on 512K + 512K Alegra, but the Alegra is not being installed by the canon disk at present. I get "Software Failure" from dpaint a lot more than from my usual WB. These failures seems related to leaving the WB disk's window open? So I reboot, open CLI and close the WB window, then dpaint runs ok. So then I dpaint (via the Canon disk's CLI) and try to print, and it gives me the requester about "Problems printing; check cables and printer" and no output. I've had mixed results printing a Notepad image: sometimes it works, sometimes no output. For the Notepad case, I think it worked when the printer was turned on AFTER powering-on the Amiga (this is the opposite of what the printer instructions say to do). But neither order of power-on works with dpaint. Is the setting of the BOLD switch relevant here? While I'm asking for help, does anyone have suggestions for a printer paper for the PJ-1080A which causes less ink spatter? A more porous surface perhaps? There is a fine spray (much finer than the dot size) that makes text look unpleasant, more so when the BOLD switch is set. Strangely, I can't detect any spatter at all in Notepad graphic-mode prints. I'm using the "standard" roll paper for the Radio Shack CGP-220. Thank you, jet-setters. Charles Poirier USENET vax135!cjp