rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) (01/12/89)
Recently, I've gotten a few complaints about JetRoff output being
garbled. It turns out, apparently, that long parallel printer
cables are the problem area. I thought I'd share this.
It seems that those 25 foot parallel cables in combination
with some parallel interfaces have a noise problem on the eighth
bit. Since JetRoff downloads fonts into the printer and the
eighth bit is heavily used, the output is garbled. Straight
ASCII files don't seem to trigger the noise problem, making it
appear as if JetRoff is the culprit.
In fact, I use a 25 foot cable here, but with a Parallel
Line Extender 'booster' to overcome these difficulties.
Oh yeah, JetRoff is a low cost DWB 2.0 postprocessor
for the LaserJet (see signature below).
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