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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:52:03 IST
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- From: Michael Dick <DICK@SIENA.BITNET>
- Subject: Printing Problems on Networked Printer
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- I have been talking about my printing problems over teh last month or so. I
- have Lingua on an HP III printer. Some of my problems were a defective handling
- of overflow which would actually destroy parts of files when I saved long files
- or tried to print them--any file large enough to need an overflow (whether on C
- or on a ram disk). I received an update yesterday that helped. My Lingua files
- were all mid August, now I have files from late September (including the
- important NB.EXE). Many of my bugs have disappeared. But I still had troubles
- printing a large (16 page) file that David Reimer sent me. At first when the
- file was active and I tried to print it; the command line would instantly say
- DONE and not print. Then I quit all files and tried from the command line with
- no active windows. It printed perfectly--up to page 8 and then started a line
- of high ASCII characters (or low?): spades, hearts, and happy faces (ironic!).
- Then it only print blank pages and the running header. I tried again and this
- time it also printed up to 7 or 8 and then printed +- (over each other) when
- ever a change of language or mode was called for and now Greek or Hebrew. After
- about four attempts, it finally printed the entire document correctly. At home
- on an identical set up but NO networked printer there was no problem. Our HP at
- school is hooked up to the VAX and three other computers (none of which were
- turned on). Is that the problem? Often (one out of 4 times) when I first print
- a NB document I will get a code of 4-5 numbers at the left hand upper corner,
- which NBI says is a printer code that the printer is taking as text. Could many
- of my printer codes for language switches etc. be passing throug the networking
- device in the back of the printer as text and throwing off my document?
- Michael Dick
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