manderso@sdcsvax.UUCP (Mark Anderson) (11/12/85)
I've got a problem that I hope someone out there can help with. I just got my amiga and have been trying to set it up with my Gemini-15 (Star Micronics) printer. The printer is Epson "compatible" (for the most part). I've used preference to set up the printer as Epson. My trouble is that when I use notepad to print out a note (as graphics) every other line is blank. Can somebody help me in one or more of the following ways: 1) Tell me I'm a fool because your Gemini works in the above configuration. (give DIP switch settings) 2) Post a Patch program to fix the printer specification. 3) Describe the format of the printer specification file. I bought the system as a plain old consumer, so I don't have extensive documentation or a c compiler. I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Mark Anderson sdcsvax!manderso (uucp) manderso@ucsd (arpa)
bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett) (11/14/85)
In article <1194@sdcsvax.UUCP> manderso@sdcsvax.UUCP (Mark Anderson) writes: >I just got my amiga and have been trying to set it up >with my Gemini-15 (Star Micronics) printer.... >...My trouble is that when I use notepad to print out a >note (as graphics) every other line is blank. I don't know if this will help but here goes.... One of our customers reported the leaving pin 14 connected causes extra linefeeds on (?epsons, I think). And another: If you want to connect a printer to the Amiga parallel port (25 pin female) and have an IBM PC parallel cable to Centronics (36 pin) cable, make the following 25 pin female to female cable: Amiga side IBM Cable side ------------- -------------- 1-13 1-13 14-16 (cut) 17-22 17-22 23 (cut) 24 24 25 connect over to 16 Now arrange as follows: +---+ | | +---+ +-------+ +---------+ | Amiga |> >==new cable==< <==IBM cable==[ [| Printer | +-------+ +---------+ Good Luck!