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- From: toddo@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Todd Oberly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: A1000 Printing Problem
- Message-ID: <D0JRwB4w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 14:06:24 EST
- Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA
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- Got a question for everybody: I bought a used A1000 about a year ago,
- and ever since, I've been having occasional trouble printing. I was
- using a virtually incompatible printer for the first couple months,
- so I didn't pay much attention to the trouble. Now my system includes:
- A1000 with FastPals, disk-based Kickstart 34.5, Workbench 1.3 version
- 34.28, Citizen GSX 140+ running under the C= EpsonQ driver and con-
- nected to the parallel port with a homemade gender changer. I usually
- use FinaL Copy II for printing, but have had trouble with other
- printing programs, too (DiskMaster, Printfiles, etc.). It's not that
- I CAN'T print, but sometimes it takes more than a dozen tries to get
- an error-free copy.
-
- Here's what happens: I get random dots across the page or lines of
- random built-in printer characters (even in FC II final mode). Some-
- times it will print a half-line of garbage, then 2-3 blank lines,
- then another half-line. Other times it will print a line of garbage
- at the top of a page, form feed, print another line, etc. Still
- other times I'll get halfway through a decent printout and then it'll
- start printing garbage. You get the idea.
-
- I really doubt the problem is Final Copy II, the printer, or the
- parallel cable/gender changer. That leaves the A1000 itself and the
- driver software. Could the parallel signal be getting garbled some-
- how? Is the EpsonQ driver completely compatible? If anybody has any
- idea what might be happening, please reply via EMAIL. (I'm accessing
- Usenet through a long-distance BBS, and don't have the money to check
- replies posted to this area.)
-
- Moocho thanks in advance!
-
- Todd
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- (toddo@hogbbs.scol.pa.us)
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