yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall) (04/11/90)
Since the replies I tried to send out to the folks who wrote me about my problems with the 1124 all bounced uniformly high, I thought I'd post a quick summary. It turns out that the Nec_Pinwriter driver does indeed seem to work well. I had been having troubles with it, but it turns out that they were caused by an assumption I made (which seemed to be a good one at the time ;^). Since the N_P driver allows you to print at 360x360 dpi, and since the Epson Q2500 emulation only goes up to 360x180, it seemed reasonable that the printer should be in the IBM ProPrinter mode, which does allow 360x360 printing. This fails miserably (although the output is sort of interesting...). Once it occured to me to switch emulations, the N_P driver seems to work fine. How does it print 360x360 dpi graphics? I haven't the foggiest. No one seemed to know if a regular 32x8 ram chip would work as the expanded buffer. Instead, most everyone tried to convince me that I'd be better off getting a print spooler instead. I haven't tried one yet, but I am suspicious that one wouldn't do any good with ProWrite, whose graphics printing is utterly miserable with only 6k worth of buffer. I'll look into it, though. Thanks to everyone who helped! ken -- Ken Yarnall yarnall@cs.scarolina.EDU Math Department, USC yarnall@ucseast.UUCP Columbia, S.C. 29208 (803)777-6686