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- From: geoffc@yorku.ca (Geoffrey Carman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: LaserJet woes
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 00:07:51 GMT
- Organization: York University
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- Thomas Eicher (T.EICHER@HSP.owl.de) wrote:
- : 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 :-)
- Which model? I got a plain jain, Laserjet I, no Postscript (bummer)
-
- : > 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) ?
- When I try to print, I either get garbage. Data is being sent,
- processed even, but nothing acceptable comes out. I get an error 22 and then 40
- after eaxh page of grabage gets sent out. Using the Cont button gets
- the next page of grabage sent out, but still garbge.
-
- : > 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.
- i I did, I used the Workbench Preferences requester and selected
- HP Laserjet, and Serial interface. Still no go.
-
-
- : Have you tried using the parallel centronics interface ?
- I do not know which LaserJet model you have, but this one only
- has a serial port. NO parellel. Again, bummer.
-
- : > 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 ?
- I guess more functionality than the WB driver. Not really sure.
-
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- Geoffrey Carman
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- York University
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