maden@rzsin.sin.chunet (David Maden) (05/25/87)
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. Does anyone know what might be wrong? To fill in the picture a little, I have tried several DIP-switch settings and printer port settings to no avail. The following are what I believe should be the correct ones (with my translations of items from the Star-10 interface module manual and the German desk-top of the Atari - perhaps this is a problem peculiar to the German ROMs!). The NL-10 DIP switches are set as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 F N N N F N N N N = oN, F = ofF \ / | | | | | +----- USA character set | | | | +--------- 12 inch paper (selecting 11 inch makes no difference) | | | +----------- No bottom margin (other position tried too) | | +------------- Computer must send <LF> | +--------------- Paper-end sensor enabled +----------------- User definable characters enabled The printer set-up menu on the desk-top is as follows: Printer type - Matrix B/W or colour - Black/white Dots per line - 960 Print quality - Draft Printer or Modem - Printer Paper type - Single sheet As a final note, 1st Word seems to handle the printer all right. Listings from ST-Basic (not that I use the language, I just wanted to try out software which I assume is 100% Atari supported), however, lose characters in the same way as the Desktop. <maden@rzsin.sin.chunet> David Maden, maden@czheth5a.bitnet Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, CH-5234 Villigen
maden@rzsin.sin.chunet (David Maden) (06/15/87)
I sent this request for help to the net a couple of weeks ago but then there was a hiccup in our receipt of network messages so it's possible I never saw the crucial reply. Please excuse the repetition ... 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. Does anyone know what might be wrong? To fill in the picture a little, I have tried several DIP-switch settings and printer port settings to no avail. The following are what I believe should be the correct ones (with my translations of items from the Star-10 interface module manual and the German desk-top of the Atari - perhaps this is a problem peculiar to the German ROMs!). The NL-10 DIP switches are set as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 F N N N F N N N N = oN, F = ofF \ / | | | | | +----- USA character set | | | | +--------- 12 inch paper (selecting 11 inch makes no difference) | | | +----------- No bottom margin (other position tried too) | | +------------- Computer must send <LF> | +--------------- Paper-end sensor enabled +----------------- User definable characters enabled The printer set-up menu on the desk-top is as follows: Printer type - Matrix B/W or colour - Black/white Dots per line - 960 Print quality - Draft Printer or Modem - Printer Paper type - Single sheet As a final note, 1st Word seems to handle the printer all right. Listings from ST-Basic (not that I use the language, I just wanted to try out software which I assume is 100% Atari supported), however, lose characters in the same way as the Desktop. <maden@rzsin.sin.chunet> David Maden, maden@czheth5a.bitnet Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, CH-5234 Villich