mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) (07/14/89)
I have a KXP-1124, which is supposed to be the greatest thing since peanut butter, but I can't get those glorious printouts everyone talks about. I use the 1.3 NEC driver, I even read the 1.3 manual. I just don't know the right "settings" to get optimal printouts. What can I say, I'm a semi-novice :-). Can someone, anyone, help me get the most out of this printer? -Evan
utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) (07/14/89)
In article <30045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes: > > I have a KXP-1124, which is supposed to be the greatest thing since peanut > butter, but I can't get those glorious printouts everyone talks about. I use > the 1.3 NEC driver, I even read the 1.3 manual. I just don't know the right > "settings" to get optimal printouts. What can I say, I'm a semi-novice :-). > Can someone, anyone, help me get the most out of this printer? > > -Evan What kinds of problems are you having? If you are in density 7, make sure you have scaling set to fractional, not integer. Integer scaling GURUs. What software are you using? Some software is going to print glop with any printer. I have this printer too, and would like to help, but... Please be more specific. _____ | Todd M. Lewis Disclaimer: If you want my employer's ||\/| utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu ideas, you'll have to || || utoddl@ecsvax.bitnet _buy_ them. | || |___ (Never write a program bigger than your screen.)
rap@peck.ardent.com (Rob Peck) (07/15/89)
In article <30045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes: > > I have a KXP-1124, which is supposed to be the greatest thing since peanut >butter, but I can't get those glorious printouts everyone talks about. I use >the 1.3 NEC driver, I even read the 1.3 manual. I just don't know the right >"settings" to get optimal printouts. What can I say, I'm a semi-novice :-). >Can someone, anyone, help me get the most out of this printer? > >-Evan For the sake of semi-novices everywhere... I am requesting the aid of the Amiga community (via EMAIL or MAIL please)... there is now, in the 1.3 enhancer docs, a lot of information about printer support. There is, no doubt, a large body of information still to be made available, and it is, cumulatively in the heads and hands of those who have struggled with their own printers to get good output. I would like to volunteer to collect that information and make it available to new users, perhaps in the form of a magazine article or whatever. Such things as "where can I find a driver for XXX printer" (names of available drivers on various systems for downloading), settings in Preferences that give proper output (contrast, what avoids extraneous line feeds and so on), I mean WHATEVER you figured out on your own that was not documented. Maybe someone knows of a source who has been collecting printer drivers for the past 3 years and offers PD/almostPD disks with the drivers available. I can summarize and post something if the responses dictate it. There is not much in the Amiga Companion about printers and printer drivers... I sorta defer to the 1.3 enhancer docs on that... but there is probably a lot to be learned from the sandpaper-based experiences of printer owners. My net address is: uunet!ardent!rap or for hardcopy or disks: DATAPATH, POBox 1828, Los Gatos, CA 95031 Rob Peck
Ata@multics.radc.af.mil (John G. Ata) (07/18/89)
Date: 13 July 1989 16:54 edt
From: Evan Mitchell <mitchell at JANUS.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: Panasonic printer woes...
I have a KXP-1124, which is supposed to be the greatest thing since peanut
butter, but I can't get those glorious printouts everyone talks about. I use
the 1.3 NEC driver, I even read the 1.3 manual. I just don't know the right
"settings" to get optimal printouts. What can I say, I'm a semi-novice :-).
Can someone, anyone, help me get the most out of this printer?
-Evan
I use the 1.3 EpsonQ driver and don't really seem to have any problems.
Is there a reason why you're using another driver?higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) (07/18/89)
In article <30045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes:
$ I have a KXP-1124, which is supposed to be the greatest thing since peanut
$butter, but I can't get those glorious printouts everyone talks about. I use
$the 1.3 NEC driver, I even read the 1.3 manual. I just don't know the right
$"settings" to get optimal printouts. What can I say, I'm a semi-novice :-).
$Can someone, anyone, help me get the most out of this printer?
$
$-Evan
It MIGHT have something to do with the software you're using. I use the
NEC Pinwriter driver from 1.3. I do word processing using WordPerfect's
own driver (LQ 2500). I've done Professional Draw printouts, which are
great. Most software doesn't re-render for printouts and so you only get
screen resolution no matter what density setting you use. If you're using
software like this, there's little to be gained by using the higher
densities.
By using INTEGER scaling, you get less "rounding" (a euphemism for the
fact that two `l's side by side might come out looking different; one
thin and the other fat :-( ). Using Multiply and ratios can yield some
good results. For those programs that don't use the printer resolution,
the multiply option can use higher resolutions, but your printouts will
get smaller and smaller. The good news is that more software these days
seems to be taking advantage of printer resolution and not just doing
screen dumps.
Paul.