pwaech@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Parker Waechter) (05/23/89)
I am having trouble getting windows (2.03) to talk to my okidata microline 92 printer. It has a "plug and play" installed (a new chip which makes it look like a ibm graphics printer), and is located on lpt1:. When I try and print from write the spooler comes up and after a few seconds says "Cannot write to LPT1:". I tried many different drivers includeing the strait ascii dump and all had this same result. Nothing prints. When I abort the spooler, the printhead moves a bit, like when you put it back on line. No other software has had problems talking to the printer and if from a program I do a write to the lpt1: device it works fine. ANY CLUES?? ----------- pwaech@uscscb.uscsc.edu ---------
heath@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Robert Heath) (05/23/89)
Wait! Let me take this one! I just went through the same thing with *my* Okidata 92. I got the IBM Plug 'n' Play ROMS and converted it from native Okidata 92 to an IBM Graphics printer emulation. I had to get into the control.exe program and correctly set up windows for the new emulation. At the same time I had to disable any other printer emulations pointing to LPT1. Under Control's "install printer" menu, make sure you have installed IBMGRX.DRV (That's the Okidata92 with IBM graphics.) Under the "printer connections" menu make sure that the Okidata92 is on LPT1, and other printer drivers, if any, are on NONE. This information ultimately goes into the WIN.INI file. You should restart Windows to make it look at the WIN.INI file. You can look in "Queues" pop-down of spooler.exe to see which printer windows thinks it is running. You may wish to run your Okidata standalone diagnostics to be sure you got everything back in place on the printer side of things. (I think you power it on with one of the buttons (LineFeed ?) depressed. . .) Best, Robert Heath