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- Subject: Re: Printer Parallel port misery
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- From: noren@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Greg Noren)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:22:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.131533.16209@eurohub.neu.sgi.com> <1992Nov16.141604.16853@eurohub.neu.sgi.com>
- Organization: Southwest Research Institute
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- In article <1992Nov16.141604.16853@eurohub.neu.sgi.com> joe@spectrum.neu.sgi.com (Joe Elliott) writes:
- >I have been having problems with printers for some time now. All of them
- >with PostScript printers and parallel ports.
-
- [ Joe's parallel port hangup problem description deleted ]
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- >
- >Any Ideas .. Thanx in advance.
- >--
- >joe@neu.sgi.com (VM# 9083) Tel. +41 38 433 698 Fax. +41 38 43 39 74
-
- Just a thought, Joe, which you might have tried already. Swap out the
- parallel cable for a different one. I had a customer with symptoms
- similar to this only with a plotter. The cable was actually sound; the
- problem was it was over 50 feet long.
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