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- From: cjolley@iac.net (Carl Jolley)
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- Subject: Re: FW & Panasonic printers
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 02:59:21 -0500
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- Gary,
-
- I suggest you develop a short test case with a small amount of text to
- print. Make to can repeat the problem you have been seeing with this
- small text case.
-
- Then set your 2123 to print in hex and run your test case through it.
- Using the protocol sequences in your printer manual see if by looking
- through the hex print out you can find an escape sequence or non-printable
- ascii character that is undefined or out-of-place. Within the context
- of other print options, see if you can figure out what sequence of printer
- operations would have made sense at the point that the strange stuff
- appears. Using a HEX editor, see if you can find all the places in the
- Final Writer program where the code sequence appears. This may be a
- severely non-trivial manual translation process if Final Writer is
- using a standard PRT: sequences and your print driver is translating it
- from the standard codes for the PRT: device to the Panasonic/Epson sequences
- for your 2323. Here's another couple of possibilities. Use the Cmd program
- to capture output to a file on disk and look at the captured file to
- see (perhaps using type <file> opt h) if you can locate the code that's
- causing the strange behaviour. Another thing that you could try to see
- how the behaviour may change is to write your printer output to PAR: instead
- of to PRT: that way you will see exactly what Final Writer is
- writing without any "help" from the PRT: device. This is very likely to
- be stuff that will drive your printer crazy so I definitely recommend that
- you capture this stuff with the Cmd program and not print it. From your
- description, this is a programming problem with Final Writer. Also it
- might be interesting to see if just powering on or off just the A3000 or
- just the 2323 would clear up the problem or an alternative way to say
- the same thing, what happens if you don't power off one or the two?
-
-
-
- Gary Alan Peake (Gemini2@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- : I have one problem with Final Writer an my Panasonic 2123 printer.
-
- : I have tried every printer driver I can find including Wolfe Faust's
- : PanaPrefs printer driver set-up, BUT I still have the same weird problem.
-
- : I can type in a document in Final Writer, save & print or print & save. ONE
- : TIME! On a second attempt at printing, my printer will form feed out one
- : full page, back up one page or less, then the printer head will go to the far
- : right like it has intercepted a control character that it can't interpret.
-
- : The only way that I can reprint any document is to power off the printer
- : for ten seconds, power it on, then reprint. A three finger salute isn't
- : enough. I can power down the 3000 and printer, then go back into FW without
- : a hitch and re-print any document.
-
- : I am using a Panasonic KX-2123 printer, an A3000/25, WB 2.1, and FW4.01 ...
-
- : My FW print prefs are the normal defaults with the PanaPref printer
- : selected, using 'continuous' paper. I have density set at 180x180 and
- : threshold set at 6.
-
- : I get excellent prints of any document the first time around so I think it
- : has something to do with the printer not clearing it's buffer properly?
-
- : What's really screwy is that I can use CygnusEd or Fullview to print
- : documents as many times in a row as I want and they turn out fine?
-
- : Also, if I set the number of copies to 2 or more in FW, they all print just
- : fine.
-
- : HELP .....
-
-
- : Gary
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