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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: DeskJet Gone Mad
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.000226.23413@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep14.165847.11883@abo.fi>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:02:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.165847.11883@abo.fi> CBURMAN@finabo.abo.fi () writes:
- >we had a nasty brownout on our floor yesterday, and it killed my OS/2
- >_dead_. I tried everything but couldn't get it up again. So I've spent the
- >day re-installing the little sweetness (with all patches and fixes, nicely
- >configured program objects, etc. it's taken all day).
- >Things are all right again EXCEPT that my DeskJet 500 doesn't work 'as
- >advertised'. It prints the first page, and then starts to feed out empty
- >sheets as many as I put in the tray. Only way to stop it, is to reset the
- >printer.
- >I had this problem (or something very similar) when I installed OS/2 the
- >first time. The solution was then to tick the "printer specific"
- >box in the printer's driver settings. (Somebody could explain this 'printer
- >specific' stuff to me. I'm too stupid for this.) But now it doesn't matter
- >what I do, I only get the first page & a lot of blanks.
-
- Have you tried using the patched DeskJet driver in the epson.zoo file,
- available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu?
-
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