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- From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Help! OS/2 can't talk to printer anymore....
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:45:01 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- I don't know what happened. It's been working fine....
-
- Background: I have a 486 with a Laserjet IIIP with postscript cartridge.
- So I have 2 printer icons on my desktop, one for plain LJ IIIP and the
- other for LJ IIIP with postscript (with the appropriate printer driver
- selected is basically the difference. Both defined as using LPT1). The
- plain LJ IIIP is set as default printer. This has worked since the
- original OS/2 I first bought. And with the service pack installed, it
- still worked fine. Am still using OS/2 with Service Pack (not 2.1 beta).
- In fact, I printing Xmas stuff right on Xmas day and it worked fine.
- This was the last time I used it.
-
- Problem: This week, I tried to print something and it won't print.
- Finally, it came back with a message saying "Printer not responding!!
- Retry?". I checked the printer and it looked ok. I checked everything. I
- left the LJ IIIP as default printer, checked the settings and the right
- printer driver was selected and lpt1 was still selected. Nothing has
- changed. But I tested again and again and nothing even went to the
- printer cause the light didn't even blink. So as far as OS/2 is
- concerned, it can't even start talking to the printer. Well good thing I
- didn't trust OS/2 and installed Boot Manager at the beginning so that I
- can still boot DOS. (I have to say, I still have to boot DOS every once
- in awhile cause I'm still finding limitations of OS/2's DOS emulation
- such that I still need the real thing to run some of my DOS programs. Or
- somethings under OS/2 just doesn't work like this printer business).
- (But I do like OS/2 cause I do use it most of the time and only go back
- to DOS when I just can't do some things at all. I just wish OS/2 will
- finally clean things up in 2.1 so that I can stay in OS/2 period).
- Anyways, back to my story. I can still boot DOS and print things fine
- under DOS, Windows, everything still works fine under DOS. Some of the
- simplest things that worked under DOS but not OS/2 was something as
- silly as "echo > prn" and "echo > lpt1:" under the DOS prompt even. Not
- even using a program. I've checked all my settings for my printer icon.
- Both icons. Still using LJ IIIP as default so don't have to worry about
- the PS stuff.
-
- Any suggestins as to whatelse I can check for? Pointers? Hints?
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Thomas.
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