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- From: miesfeld@cs.arizona.edu (Mark Miesfeld)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Which printer driver for Okidata OL830
- Message-ID: <29497@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 19:24:44 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu
- Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
- Lines: 28
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- I have long had minor annoyances printing in postscript mode on my
- Okidata OL830. I suspected it was the printer driver. I just recently
- had time to install the OS/2 beta and Win-Os2 3.1 off the PDK. The
- Win-Os2 3.1 beta had a specific driver for the OL830, and this driver
- works flawlessly as far as I can tell.
-
- This makes me think even more that my trouble with OS/2 GA + SP is the
- driver.
-
- The annoyances have been slow printing, printscreens either take, literally,
- tens of minutes to print, or get dropped altogether. In EPM 5.51 selecting
- print in draft mode sends data to the printer (the data light comes on,)
- then after 20 seconds the job disappears with nothing printed. In the
- WorkFrame, if I select the option to print one of the logs, the same thing
- happens. The data light comes on then after a while it goes out, with
- nothing printed.
-
- If I switch the printer to HP emulation and use the HP II driver none of
- these problems occur. Now in Win-Os2 3.1 I don't seem to have any prob-
- lems in postscript mode.
-
- Which is a round about way of asking if others with the OL830 have problems
- in postscript mode, and if not, what drivers are you using? I have tried
- both the Apple Laserwriter II and the generic postscript.
-
- --
- Mark
- miesfeld@caslon.cs.arizona.edu
-