[comp.sys.amiga] I CAN'T PRINT

a808@mindlink.UUCP (David R. Matthews) (09/17/90)

Why not use the EPSONX [CBM_MPS-1250] driver that comes with your 1.3 prefs?

edgr@pro-graphics.cts.com (Ed Greaves) (09/17/90)

Help Me PLEASE!!!!!  I have a Panasonic KX-P1091i Printer that I can"t get to
print.  I have An AMIGA 2000, w/100MGbyte GVP HD, and 3 MG RAM  I can not get
this thing to print...Although the manual says to use EPSON-RX EMULATOR if
there is none for panasonic.  But I get nothing.  Well, not actually Nothing,
but just what appears to be random characters...I can"t figure it out.  There
are even fairly distinct differences between trying to print from Shell, or
from using my Word Proccesor.  Either way...it still comes out as gibberish...
If anyone can upload a Printer Driver for y printer...or give me easy to
understand instructions for writing my own I would appreciate it phenomonally.
Thank You....

ED GREAVES   
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peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (09/17/90)

In article <4451@crash.cts.com> edgr@pro-graphics.cts.com (Ed Greaves) writes:
>Help Me PLEASE!!!!!  I have a Panasonic KX-P1091i Printer that I can"t get to
>print.  I have An AMIGA 2000, w/100MGbyte GVP HD, and 3 MG RAM  I can not get
>this thing to print...Although the manual says to use EPSON-RX EMULATOR if
>there is none for panasonic.  But I get nothing.  Well, not actually Nothing,
>but just what appears to be random characters...I can"t figure it out.  There

Hmm, ever checked your cable and connectors? Tried these on another
computer? They are good candidates to cause random errors. If for
example one of the data lines is broken you get totally different
ASCII characters out of that transmission line. On the A2000 try to
print from Notepad in text mode or from Shell, this provides simple
character data. If you do a graphic screen dump with the program
GraphicDump and look carefully at the result, you perhaps can detect
a certain faulty bit (if this just NOT happens to disturb the control
sequences for the graphics initialization).

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hoover@math4.uni-bielefeld.de (Uwe Sch"urkamp) (09/18/90)

I had similar problem once when I bought my NEC p6+. The characters sent to
to the printer also looked totally randomized. The problem lay
with a broken 8520 CIA which controls the parallel port and the timer.
So if games like EMPIRE or other programs which use the clock don't
work either...here's the place to look!

	Cheers,
		Hoover
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