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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: NEC Pinwriter P20 driver?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.010840.11304@sj.ate.slb.com>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 01:08:40 GMT
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- John English (je@unix.brighton.ac.uk) wrote:
- : 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? :-)
-
- The only answer I get is to use Epson drivers. Thanks a lot.
-
- Russ
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