rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Tony Rimovsky) (03/22/91)
I have a problem. My imagewriter II has been acting flakey the past
couple of days. For a while it ust wouldn't print. (Yes, everything
was set correctly, eg The SELECT button was on as well as power) I didnt
do a thing to the printer. I just kept sending print commands. On about the
fifth try, it actually printed. Then, for a while I was getting no line
feeds when I tried to print. I was using ProTerm 2.2 with the printer set
to on. I have done this many times in the past with no problems.
Finally, I decided to run the self test. Being lazy and not wanting to
go get the book, I tried to hold the PRINT QUALITY button down instead
of the FORM FEED button when starting. I got this message printed:
LOOP TEST
ROMREV(05)
DIPSW1 (00000100) DIPSW2 (1100), '1=ON,0=OFF'
RAM= 0 KB AT=OFF
LOOP BACK TEST FAILS
I looked in the manual for the printer and it does not mention this
feature. I did, incidently, run the real test and it came out fine.
Oh Yea! I almost forgot this: the error light started blinking
in a pattern after I got the above print out. 2 blinks, pause,
1 blink over and over again. Any ideas? I dont want to take this
to a *chuckle* Apple dealer (HaHaHaHa!!! Right. Id say Apple IIgs
and they'd say that was my problem!). Anyway, thanks in advance!
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Tony Rimovsky rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
CSO - University of Illinois (part time)
Student - University of Illinois (also part time, but not intentionally)
Questions of life :
"Why is there very little APPLE support for the IIgs?"
and
"Will I EVER be able to land an airplane from the
right seat?"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar21.190035.9087@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Tony Rimovsky) writes: |I have a problem. My imagewriter II has been acting flakey the past |couple of days. For a while it ust wouldn't print. (Yes, everything |was set correctly, eg The SELECT button was on as well as power) I didnt |do a thing to the printer. I just kept sending print commands. On about the |fifth try, it actually printed. Then, for a while I was getting no line Although this is extremely unlikely, you _might_ have a bad cable (btw, this doesn't have anything to do with the following error message). |feeds when I tried to print. I was using ProTerm 2.2 with the printer set |to on. I have done this many times in the past with no problems. |Finally, I decided to run the self test. Being lazy and not wanting to |go get the book, I tried to hold the PRINT QUALITY button down instead |of the FORM FEED button when starting. I got this message printed: | LOOP TEST | | ROMREV(05) | | DIPSW1 (00000100) DIPSW2 (1100), '1=ON,0=OFF' | | RAM= 0 KB AT=OFF | |LOOP BACK TEST FAILS You need a loopback cable hooked up for this test to work (I guess that's a cable with it's receive hooked up to it's transmit, but I'm no hardware guy). So... this is always going to happen, no matter what you do. |I looked in the manual for the printer and it does not mention this |feature. I did, incidently, run the real test and it came out fine. |Oh Yea! I almost forgot this: the error light started blinking |in a pattern after I got the above print out. 2 blinks, pause, |1 blink over and over again. Any ideas? I dont want to take this |to a *chuckle* Apple dealer (HaHaHaHa!!! Right. Id say Apple IIgs |and they'd say that was my problem!). Anyway, thanks in advance! I've looked in the ImageWrite II Technical Reference, and I didn't find anything about this test (although I might not have looked too hard). The same blinking pattern happens on my IW II, so I think it's safe to say that this error means absolutely nothing. BTW, the 'monitor mode' was documented in the IW II Reference, if you hold down the Select button while turning it on, it'll print the hex bytes that it's receiving instead of ASCII. |------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Tony Rimovsky rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu |CSO - University of Illinois (part time) -- David Huang | "Calzoni Pizza: Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | Delivery in six UUCP: ..!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!daveh | hours, or else your America Online: DrWho29 | pizza is cold."
aford@pro-mansion.cts.com (Adam Ford) (03/25/91)
In-Reply-To: message from rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
I did the very same thing to my ImageWriter II. I got
LOOP TEST
ROMREV (05)
DIMSW1 (00000100) DIPSW2(1100),'1=ON, 0=OFF'
RAM= 0 KB AT=OFF
LOOP BACK TEST FAILS
I wonder if just useing the PRINT QUALITY, it just causes a disruption
somewhere, and the imagewriter does that. When I use the Form Feed, it
says the same thing, on dropping the LOOP BACK TEST, plus it goes throught
all of the letters and stuff.
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aford@pro-mansion.cts.com (Adam Ford) (03/25/91)
In-Reply-To: message from daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
If you hold down the line feed while you turn it on, the platen goes back
and fourth.
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daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) (03/25/91)
In article <8167@crash.cts.com> aford@pro-mansion.cts.com (Adam Ford) writes: >If you hold down the line feed while you turn it on, the platen goes back >and fourth. Actually, it moves the print head/ribbon thing back and forth. If you have a color ribbon in it, it'll move through the colors too. >--- >ProLine: aford@pro-mansion >Internet: aford@pro-mansion >UUCP: crash!pro-mansion!aford >ARPA: crash!pro-mansion!aford@nosc.mil >BitNet: aford%pro-mansion.cts.com@nosc.mil > > > -- David Huang | "Calzoni Pizza: Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | Delivery in six UUCP: ..!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!daveh | hours, or else your America Online: DrWho29 | pizza is cold."
rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Tony Rimovsky) (03/27/91)
I got an answer to my question on the Imagewriter. Unfortunately my mail got dumped for me. (system memory problems) So thank you for the reply and the answer. It seems that a special cable is needed for loopback testing and without it, there will be a loopback error. Again, thanks for the answer (whoever you were) ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Rimovsky rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu CSO - University of Illinois (part time) Student - University of Illinois (also part time, but not intentionally) Questions of life : "Why is there very little APPLE support for the IIgs?" and "Will I EVER be able to land an airplane from the right seat?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TDSTRONG@MTUS5.BITNET (05/17/91)
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Hello,
I have an Imagewriter II that I would like to connect to my HP48SX. While
you people might or might not know about the 48 answer what you can about
the Imagewriter.
First. Since the HP creates characters that aren't in the standard font
I need to know the following.
1) How do you download a font to the imagewriter and what is the format
of the font file. More important can you print and define characters
above the number of 128. I have a few font making programs but all
only allow you to define the characters numbered from 0-128 what about
128-255????
Second my HP has the following lines TxD RxD and GND. It also can use
xon/xoff protocol. What lines will I have to jumper to interface this
thing. In short what are the connections. I haven't done a whole lot
of interfacing yet.
Finally anyone who has tried this. Please send me any hints you have
to make it go smoothly.
Also could someone explain the graphics format on the printer.
Please try and respond to me since I don't get a chance to read this
list very often.
TDSTRONG@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu
Tim Strong
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan U.S.A.