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== TRYING TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS BETWEEN YOUR PRINTER AND KWIKLABL ==
First, if your printer is a 9-pin, it will not print 24-pin borders.
Next, let me explain a couple of items that perhaps will help you
understand things a little better. The selection of 9-pin or 24-pin in
the opening screen of return address labels only concerns proper spacing
when you are making multiple labels. It seems that the same command
related to partial spacing means one thing on a 9-pin printer and an
entirely different spacing on a 24-pin printer. So the only answer was to
have the user identify his printer and then the spacing between labels
would be correct.
In an attempt to avoid confusion I have changed the name of the 9-pin
borders to Standard Borders because they are "bit-mapped" and work equally
well on 9-pin or 24-pin printers under almost any conditions. The 24-pin
borders are somewhat different since they are made using the "User Defined
Characters" available only on 24-pin printers. The quality of these
borders is much better and that's why I continue to use them. The only
problem is that it seems that everything in the printer works to prevent
the printing of these characters.
Things on your printer to check or adjust:
1) Your printer should be in the Epson/standard mode as
specified and NOT in the IBM mode.
2) If you have a front panel pitch selector, it must be set
to Program mode.
3) You should be set to Letter Quality mode and not Draft mode, although
now I command Letter Quality in the program.
If you have a 24-pin printer and have complied with the above conditions
and still can't print the 24-pin borders, then you must go to step 4)
below:
4) The only other thing left is to check your DIP switch
settings while reading the manual and see if they refer
to a switch having to be in a certain position in order
to use "User Defined Characters". On my Epson 24-pin
the DIP switch controlling input buffer capacity has to
be set to 1KB instead of 8KB in order to use
"user-defined or download" characters. Try setting
the DIP switches on your printer to the default or
recommended settings. It could be that one of your
favorite settings is the problem.
I sincerely hope that the above information will help you to
find and correct any problems you may have. Please let me know if you
find anything unusual as it might help someone else.