sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) (01/12/90)
I just bought a Star NX-1000 Rainbow as a gift for a friend. It does
seem to be a nice printer overall. However, when it's printing
from the Amiga, we seem to intermittently encounter the following
problem. When printing, we sometimes get the requester "Printer
trouble: check printer and paper" appearing on the Workbench, even
though there seems to be nothing wrong with the printer. This occurs
when only about a quarter or a third of the current page has been
printed. Then the NX-1000 printer halts. To get it to continue
printing, I have to hit "resume" in the "Printer trouble" requester.
This can occur several times in the course of printing a page.
Has anyone encountered anything like this, or does anyone have
something to suggest? (I should say we are using the "EpsonX" printer
driver on the Amiga, since it seems like the closest match to the
Star. In Preferences, we have selected "fanfold" and "letter"
quality, and a print density of 4. Anything wrong here?)
Thanx in advance!
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
(617)271-7753
ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org
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Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
(617)271-7753
ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org
UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
-- J. NicholsonClassic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com (01/23/90)
Could be any number of things causing your problem, including imperfect
emulation using the Epson drivers, but have you considered the possibility
of incorrect handshaking when buffering? Many printers these days have
selectable or dipswitchable buffers. That would explain why the problem
happens 2 or 3 times per page. Check your manual and see if you can
enable/disable the buffer manually or via software (send a text file with
the right codes to par: or ser:, depending on which port you are using).
This, of course, is only one possible source of the problem. Good luck.
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