cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) (11/22/87)
Has anyone tried using PageSetter with the Gemini-10x printer. Whenever I use the Gemini-10x every couple of lines the text outputted from a page layout is squashed or partially inverted. I tried using the Epson drivers in addition to the Gemini-10x driver with no success. However, the Okidata 192 driver worked perfectly with an Okidata 193 thats hooked up to my friend's IBM. Is there a problem with the Epson drivers or could it actually be a problem with my printer? This problem has put me in a big predicament as I have hours of worked done in creating reports and documentation which I can't print out! Its these times that you wish you had a Macintosh. Wilson Cheung
bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken) (11/30/87)
In article <1225@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) writes: > Has anyone tried using PageSetter with the Gemini-10x printer. > Whenever I use the Gemini-10x every couple of lines the text outputted > from a page layout is squashed or partially inverted. I tried using > the Epson drivers in addition to the Gemini-10x driver with no success. > However, the Okidata 192 driver worked perfectly with an Okidata 193 > thats hooked up to my friend's IBM. Is there a problem with the Epson > drivers or could it actually be a problem with my printer? The Epson driver won't work because the Gemeni isn't quite Epson compatible - for some strange reason Gemini uses different characters for two of the graphics mode escape sequences (I think the double and quadrouple densities, but I'm not sure). Perhaps the Pagesetter people just copied over their Epson driver and called it a Gemini one. I dunno. > Its these times that you wish you had a Macintosh. Unless you need to do more than one thing at once ... (insert overworked Mac can't multitask well arguement here). > Wilson Cheung
mrr@amanpt1.UUCP (12/03/87)
In article <22@hrsw2.UUCP>, bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken) writes: > In article <1225@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) writes: > > Has anyone tried using PageSetter with the Gemini-10x printer. > > Whenever I use the Gemini-10x every couple of lines the text outputted > > from a page layout is squashed or partially inverted. I have a similar complaint. Last night I spent a couple of hours trying to use PageSetter with my Epson LQ-800. At a couple of places on the page, a blank gap appeared across the width of the page, splitting the text and rendering it unreadable. All of the text that wasn't thus affected was very pleasing to the eye. I'm using "my own" LQ-800 printer driver, adapted from the Commodore Epson driver. I get excellent results with DPaint II, so I'm pretty sure that my driver isn't buggy. I also have a hunch that PageSetter might not be using the Preferences settings. My driver uses different density modes, based on the Letter/Draft and 6 LPI / 8 LPI settings, with Draft/6 LPI being noticeably faster. Changing these settings made no apparent difference with PageSetter. I've grown pretty much disenchanted with my Amiga/LQ-800 combination and its prospects for ever generating quality output as I've seen/created on the Macintosh with ImageWriter II. I would like to hear from someone who has a similar configuration, hopefully with better results than I'm getting. > > > Wilson Cheung > Mark -- < Mark R. Rinfret, mrr@amanpt1 | ...rayssd!galaxia!amanpt1!mrr > < Aquidneck Management Associates Home: 401-846-7639 > < 6 John Clark Road Work: 401-849-8900 x56 > < Middletown, RI 02840 "The name has changed but I'm still guilty." >
cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) (12/28/87)
I have been having a lot of trouble trying to get Pagesetter to work properly with the Star micronics Gemini-10x printer. I have been already told that the Epson driver has a different vertical dot density than the Gemini-10x and therefore causes occasional squashing of text output. Therefore, I spent some time using the PrtDrvGen utility on Fred Fish #90. After some struggling I finally got a working driver that could handle screen dumps from the graphic dump utility on the Workbench 1.2 disk. However, when used with Pagesetter nothing worked. I diverted output from the PRT: device to a file then examined the contents. It seemed for some reason the driver thought it was dumping text rather than graphics and instead of setting the proper control characters to put my printer into graphics mode, it started setting the pitch, tabs, and margins and then starting sending sending a bunch of bit mapped data which of course sent my printer through crazy gyrations. I checked that I set all the required parameters for the four possible densities of the printer driver. Could someone assist me? Wilson Cheung