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- From: cfriend@innotts.co.uk (Chris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: A1000 and Canon printer
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 21:49:06 GMT
- Organization: Computer Friendly
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- Do you have time for me - I usually work on PCs. But I'm
- trying to help an Amiga user with his printing etc problems.
- He has an A1000 (upgraded from 500), a new Canon BJC-70 printer
- and runs Mini-Office(1992).
- When he first bought the printer, it printed text OK in black,
- from the word processor. but he wanted colours and graphics too.
- So Canon sent him an Amiga driver. Since he tried to install this,
- everything has gone wrong.
- There are supposedly 3 modes in which the driver can be installed -
- they're called something like novice, intermediate and custom. The
- novice mode won't let us click on it, so we've tried both of the
- others. But the driver won't load properly; we get error messages,
- the most frequent is "Your software is out of date. You need kickstart2.04"
- or words to that effect.
- We've tried setting the printer to different emulations, usually
- Epson LQ2550.
- The printer doesn't print at all now (except for self-test, which is OK).
- Worse still, once he's tried to load the driver, he can't load Mini-Office -
- "memory errors" are reported. (He never had any memory problems before.)
- If he starts up and doesn't load the driver, he can load the word
- processor and open a file. But as soon as he tries to print it (-
- which he used to be able to do-) he gets error messages (I/O error or
- memory error).
- So although he could once print without the driver, he can't print at
- all now.
- He's desperate. Any suggestions? It would help us a lot if you could
- email me cfriend@innotts.co.uk; as I said, I'm usually a PC person and
- don't usually hang around here (please forgive me!).
- Chris.
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