gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) (04/06/91)
Several imagewriters in our department have started misprinting -- printing stray characters or random bitmaps on some lines. Most commonly seen is a "KO" at the right edge of lines, sometimes superscripted. All 4 or 5 imagewriters show this. Problems appear sometimes every few pages, sometimes 1 in 10 pages. These are all non-appletalked imagewriters connected to Mac SEs. I have in the last 4 months put ethernet cards in all the macs here, and the printer problems may all have started when the network went in. I've re-installed system (6.0.5) and ethernet software (Asante version 3.1) to no avail. I've tried plugging the printer into either printer or phone port. My only guess is that somehow the ethernet card / software may be randomly writing data into the printer/phone port serial buffer on the mac. Does this problem sound familiar to anyone? Thanks -- Don -- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405