RICHARD@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (RICHARD KERSHENBAUM) (07/19/88)
I bought a used printer last weekend to use with my Kaypro 1. It's a Radio Shack LP VIII. (Don't laugh -- it was cheap and apparently in great shape.) Plugged into the parallel port on the Kaypro, it prints nearly every character twice in ssuucceessiioonn -- not a pretty sight! Except....when using the K-1 screen dump program (from simtel20), it prints perfectly. Printing from WordStar, PIP and anything else I've tried results in doubled characters. I connected the printer to a friend's PC-clone, and it prints perfectly there. Suspecting a problem with my centronics port, I connected the same friend's Okidata 182 to the Kaypro. Perfect results again. So, all the *pieces* work independently, but the combination of the Kaypro and the LP VIII fails -- except using the screen dump program. Has anyone seen this sort of problem? Is there any cure, or are these devices just flat incompatible?? I'd sure appreciate any help.... ____________________________________________________ | ) | Richard M. Kershenbaum ( | \ "Nobody does more | Manager, Technical Services * | harm than folks | The University of Kansas | who feel bad | Computer Center | about doing it." | Lawrence, Kansas 66045 (913)864-0445 | | | -- William Burroughs | Bitnet: richard@ukanvax | | Internet: richard@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | |_____________________________________________________|