maden@rzsin.sin.chunet (David Maden) (07/07/87)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote ... > I have a Star NL-10 printer connected to my 1040STf via the printer port. The > plug-in unit on the Star-10 is a so-called Parallel Interface-Steckmodul. My > problem is that, when I manually feed in single sheets of paper to the printer > to get a print-out of a file from the desk-top (i.e. double-click the file and > then select the "print file" option), I lose characters (the number that get > lost appears random but is usually about 16) when changing sheets of paper. > Etc .... Thanks to help from Holger Brieger in Berlin, I have been able to fix the fault. The problem is the Version of the EPROM in the NL10 Plug-in Cartridge. You can see the version number by invoking the printer's self-test feature. Mine was P1.4 and is now P1.5 and works much better. On changing sheets of paper, though, I now have to press the on-line button as well which was not the case before (but I guess this could be a feature rather than a bug since you then have a chance to check that the paper is straight!!). Since I have seen this same fault on many printers in the shops in this part of Switzerland, there may be other Atari users out there in need of the same upgrade. <maden@rzsin.sin.chunet> David Maden, maden@czheth5a.bitnet Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, CH-5234 Villigen