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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Subject: GVP PhonePak FAX printing?
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:19:37 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- Here's a question for GVP PhonePak owners.
-
- Have you been able to print faxes? At all?
-
- My dad has one of these in his 2000/030. Everything works OK except
- that printing faxes fails 100% of the time, often in a manner which
- indicates it is writing over random parts of memory.
-
- His printer configuration is correct, including the preferences set up.
- He can print graphics or text from any other program including
- DeluxePaint IV and Final Copy II. He can even import a FAX from
- PhonePak into Final Copy and print it out just fine. But printing from
- the PhonePak program itself just won't work. This is with the HP
- LaserJet III driver (which is obviously working great since it works
- from other programs). The settings we use are identical for PhonePak
- and FinalCopy/Dpaint. Also, we've tried darned near every possible
- permutation of options in the graphics print preferences, and none of
- them work in PhonePak (yet they all work everywhere else).
-
- We've eliminated the possibility of conflicts with other programs by
- shutting everything else down. We just boot, run no other software from
- startup-sequence or anywhere else, and then run PhonePak. Same results.
- We've also tried other printer drivers with other printers, and the same
- thing happens - we can print graphics from other programs, but not
- PhonePak. It is not a lack of memory - he has about 4 Mb free during
- the time PhonePak is "printing".
-
- GVP Tech Support had nothing to say about the problem. They claim it
- works, yet it obviously doesn't since it often scrambles screen memory
- when you print, and other times writes over other sections of RAM.
- That's a fairly reliable indictment of their program, I'd think :-)
-
- Its a bit of a problem, since printing faxes is important. Always
- having to import them to DPaint or Final Copy to print is not an
- acceptable solution. The card came with v1.0 of the software, and GVP
- sent him v1.1 to see if it would fix the problem. No dice - same
- problem exactly.
-
- Anybody else seen this? Any way to fix it? We'd hate to have to return
- the card, but if 'ya can't print faxes with a fax card, that's a big
- problem.
-
- - steve
-