gary@mic.UUCP (Gary Lewin) (03/19/89)
We have several Star NB24-10 (24 pin) printers running in Epson mode with
Windows. Obviously, the epson24 driver is being used to drive the Star
printers.
There is problem, though and after almost a year of using white-out, I
thought it might be worth asking advice. A "0" is printed as the first
character on the top left corner of every page. [ Don't laugh, but we
are talking about bottles of white-out :-) ]
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone have a solution?
Gary Lewin
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From article <226@mic.UUCP>, by gary@mic.UUCP (Gary Lewin): > thought it might be worth asking advice. A "0" is printed as the first > character on the top left corner of every page. [ Don't laugh, but we > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone have a solution? This is just a suggestion, but I noticed on the epson9.drv it always outputs an ESC r NULL at the start of the printout. This usually means set color to 0 but many printers don't recognise this escape sequence, mine for instance thinks it should start printing in reverse video. SO I used a binary editor and patched out the two areas that had the string ESCrNULL in epson9.drv, that fixed that problem. Now what you can do is either put your printer in hex dump mode or print to a file (see manual on how to do that). Then using a binary dump utility, see if there are any strange sequences being output to the printer at the start of every page. If there is one that your printer doesn't recognise, then patch it out of the epson24.drv file as I described above. My guess is that it is outputing an ESC???0 where ??? is not recognised by your printer, and the 0 is printed out instead of being a parameter to ESC???. Let me know what you find. -- Jim Morris. {motcsd|weitek}!dms!morris or morris@dms.UUCP Atari Games Corporation, Sycamore Drive, Milpitas CA 95035. (Arcade Video Game Manufacturer, NOT Atari Corp. ST manufacturer). Any opinions expressed are probably my own, and not those of Atari Games Corp.