mwm@raybed2.msd.ray.com (mwm) (11/27/90)
Hope someone can help me. I have a Digital LA50 dot matrix printer that I'd like to hook up to my PC. As you may surmise, its not widely supported. My question is, how can I make this printer emulate something common like an Epson printer. Unfortunately, I have no documentation for it so if someone could tell me what the microswitch settings should be, I would be forever grateful. Also, the top row of the printhead appears to be dead (it's not the ribbon alignment), any ideas on how to diagnose/clean/fix it? Thanks in advance, Mark -- *Mark Marino * The old ranger weathered the storm and he topped the *mwm@raybed6.msd.ray.com * rise by the middle of morn. He saw rippled dunes, *Raytheon Co. * calm and surreal, and a glint of a solitary shaft of *Tewksbury, MA * chromium steel. The Golden Age of Leather
ajai@sce.carleton.ca (Ajai Sehgal) (11/28/90)
mwm@raybed2.msd.ray.com (mwm) writes: > Hope someone can help me. I have a Digital LA50 dot matrix printer >that I'd like to hook up to my PC. As you may surmise, its not widely >supported. My question is, how can I make this printer emulate something >common like an Epson printer. > Unfortunately, I have no documentation for it so if someone could tell >me what the microswitch settings should be, I would be forever grateful. > Also, the top row of the printhead appears to be dead (it's not the ribbon >alignment), any ideas on how to diagnose/clean/fix it? > Thanks in advance, > Mark Unfortunatly I think you are SOOL (Sh** out of luck). The LA50 is so non standard that the only thing it can emulate is itself. There are WP50 drivers for it but WordPerfect is one of the few packages that supports it. I once tried to write a simple TSR that would map Epson FX-80 codes to the LA50 but the LA50 is so convoluted that I couldn't get satisfactory results. (and I do have the documentation, or did have, I ditched the LA50). The best you could do is get DEC to trade up for an LA75, if you have a good working relationship with them (ie you're a big customer) they're usually good about swapping. The best you can hope for with the LA50 is a strait ASCII dump, ie printing of text files. Ajai