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- From: je@unix.brighton.ac.uk (John English)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: NEC Pinwriter P20 driver?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.151401.14506@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:14:01 GMT
- References: <724517468.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>
- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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- Robert.Dyess@f6507.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Dyess) writes:
- : * In a message originally to All, Timothy F. Sipples said:
- :
- : TS>Just out of genuine curiosity, can you elaborate on why the
- : TS>closest Epson driver does not work as well?
- :
- : I apologize for butting in, but I have a Pinwriter P2200 and have the same
- : problem. The driver that works best is the Epson LQ-850 on my system. But it
- : acts flakey from time to time. The symptoms are slow speed (much slower than
- : I know the printer was capable of under MS-DOS, even in draft mode),
- : frequent unexplained hold of the print job in the que that cannot be
- : reversed from the WPS window and frequent inability to control the font
- : being used at print time. These problems can be corrected on my system after
- : usually one or two complete power downs. But I only experience these things
- : at unpredictable and irregular intervals which makes the problem very hard
- : to diagnose.
-
- I've got a NEC P20, and I've set it up as an LQ850. I normally use it for
- listings so I use quick'n'dirty draft mode by default. That nice Epson
- driver doesn't like that so it resets it to Courier at the start of every
- file. I then hit select & reset the font (Courier is quite slow), but
- then the next file starts & I have to do it again. Ho hum. Where are
- all the real NEC drivers? (I've asked before but got no answers -- is
- it my imagination or do only easy questions get replies? :-)
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