[comp.windows.ms] Humble question about a humble printer

david@vlsisj.uucp (David Hsu) (05/14/91)

I have a Blue Chip 120 9 pin printer (also sold as Citizen, C. Itoh,
etc.) which explicitly states support for the Epson 9 pin command
set.  Printing from Windows (any application) using the Epson 9 pin
driver causes a solid black bar to be printed before the first
character in a line.  Printing with the vanilla text driver prints
in reverse (white text on black).  I've redirected printing to a
file, and the first command is Esc r, which is Epson for reverse
mode.  Putting 0's (in a hex editor) over the Esc r, removes the
black bar, but causes other problems.  I'm at the limit of my
resources and am stumped; before I resign myself to $pend money
on a new printer, anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!  Dave Hsu
{...}!decwrl!vlsisj!david, david@compass-da.com

PS:  386-25DX, 40M HD, 4M ram, enhanced mode.  MS tech. support
     called, no help.