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- From: T.EICHER@HSP.owl.de (Thomas Eicher)
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- Subject: Re: LaserJet woes
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:20:03 +0100
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- geoffc@yorku.ca (Geoffrey Carman ) wrote on 14.01.96 something about LaserJet woes...
-
- > I managed to scam an old LaserJet prnter,
-
- So did I :-)
-
- > and I cannot seem to
- > get it to print correctly.
-
- What does that mean? Does the printer get any kind of data (i.e.
- the LED flashes) ?
-
- > I hooked the printer up to the Amiga serial port, using a
- > straight thru serial cable (from my 2400 modem, not a hardware handshaking
- > cable.) I also have a null modem at the printer end.
-
- I believe you have to tell the printer that it's hooked up using
- a serial interface instead of the standard parallel one.
-
- Have you tried using the parallel centronics interface ?
-
- > I downloaded the Laserjet stuff from Aminet, and none of them seeme
- > to help much. Any suggestions as what to try next?
-
- Huh ? What's that supposed to do / improve ?
-
- mfg, Tom. Trapped in Paderborn
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