sreekanth@rgb.dec.com (Jon Sreekanth) (09/08/90)
Hi,
I have Wordstar 5, and a Brother HR15-XL, with a serial interface,
my machine is an XT no-name clone.
I'm encountering difficulty printing. Short documents, such as single
page letters, come out ok, but larger documents go haywire, about
three quarters into the first page, overprinting, skipping spaces,
lines, and terminating abruptly. It's almost as if WS or my clone could
not see the handshake from the printer saying its buffer was full
(but that's just my theory). Shorter documents (or even full page,
sparser documents, with fewer characters) print just fine.
I'm using the official Brother serial cable, at $30 (!). Or, rather,
I bought the printer from Mid West Micro (sp?) Peripherals, and they
shipped this as the official cable; it has no markings on it.
For wordstar, I picked Diablo 630 as the printer description file,
since Brother HR15XL was not listed.
Please help. I ordered the serial cable separately, because Brother
has a bizarre serial interface, and I hoped it would fix the
problem. My serial card allows some flexibility, such as tying some
strobes asserted, but I haven't played with that. Perhaps diablo 630
is not exactly right for ws printer definition file ?
Please send email; I'll try out the solutions and post a summary
Thanks much,
/ Jon Sreekanth
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