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- From: dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson)
- Subject: Re: Printing problems with 2.04
- Message-ID: <C0DzB3.Grv@space.physics.uiowa.edu>
- Keywords: parallel.device,printers,WorkBench2.04/WorkBench1.3
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- Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy
- References: <93005.093305F67406@BARILVM.BITNET>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:06:38 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- In article <93005.093305F67406@BARILVM.BITNET>, you write:
- > Hi
- >
- > I am having problems when I try to print with the 2.04 workbench.
- >
- > This is my situation:
- > I have an Amiga 2000 with the 2.04 ROMs in it, and a PANASONIC KX_P1124
- > printer. I set my printer driver as generic and I am booting my Amiga
- > with 2.04 workbench software.
- > I am trying to print a text file and I get the response that the printer
- > is probably off line. I can't even reset the printer by double cliking
- > over the InitPrinter icon.
- >
- > When I boot my Amiga with a 1.3 workbench diskette, however, I can
- > print, reset my printer using the same InitPrinter icon (which belongs
- > to the 2.04 workbench that resides in my hard disk).
- >
- > As far as I recall, I was printing with this Amiga in the past with the
- > 2.04 workbench.
- > I even tried swapping the 8520 CIA chips and it didn't help.
-
- Yudy and all others with this kind of problem!
-
- I had this problem and my dealer has told me he has had it with
- new A2000 right out of the box. No one has ever been able to
- satifactorily explain it, but the workaround that I have used with
- success is this:
-
- 1) rename your current WB2.0 DEVS:parallel.device to
- parallel.device-2.0
- 2) copy a WB1.3 version of the parallel.device to the WB2.0
- DEVS: drawer.
- 3) for convience/saftey I would also make another copy of the
- WB1.3 parallel.device as parallel.device-1.3
- 4) re-boot and print
-
- Of course, I will not guarentee this to work, but it did for me
- and several others who have had this problem. It is surely a little
- hardware problem with the A2000, but who knows what???
-
- rick
- --
- Richard L. Dyson INTERNET: dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
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