Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 1433 |
Total number of notes: | 10312 |
I know next to nothing about printers, and I seem to have a problem with mine. I bought a Panasonix 1080i printer about three months ago. The clerk at the store told me (mistake #1) that it was Epson-compatible, and if I had drivers for such, they would work fine. Wrong. I have had problems with several programs and cannot seem to print graphics. My word processors seem to do OK, and there is no problem printing a file from the desktop. All my problems are printing graphics. If I do a screen dump, it seems the right half of the screen doesn't print. I also picked up Publisher ST and set it for Epson 9-pin, and it begins printing fine. Then it goes nuts and prints junk, and form feeds like crazy. Is anyone out there familiar with these symptoms? The only graphics I can print are DEGAS files (found a 1091 driver for that), but the picture only takes up about 1/2 of the page, and there are spaces between lines caused by line feeds. Arrrrggggghhhh (yank hair from head...)! Thanks, Les
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325.1 | lots of options to go wrong | DELNI::GOLDSTEIN | Plesiochronous percussion | Thu Dec 01 1988 20:23 | 12 |
I have a 1080i and while I don't have those programs, I've found the printer to be generally quite good. But if you go through the book, there are _scads_ of escape sequences, some of which seem very weird, and which may impact graphics. The 1080i wants to be compatible with IBM graphics too, and has escape sequences to select what's what. So it's probably worth the effort to "play with it" for a while! (The WordPerverse upgrade 8/1/88 redid the printer drivers, trading one set of bugs for another... debugging it made me more familiar with the printer than I wanted to be!) fred | |||||
325.2 | One out of three | LEDDEV::WALLACE | Fri Dec 02 1988 02:07 | 11 | |
When doing a screen dump to the 1080i or 1091i you need to use the controll panel (or equivelent) to set the printer parameters to be 960 dots per line instead of 1280 (the default I think) and then save the desktop (so it will be set right every time you turn on the ST). If you have it set for 1280 then a screen dump will cut off the right half of the screen. I don't have Publisher or Degas and I don't have any intelligent guesses for those problems. Ray | |||||
325.3 | Does it do selftest properly ? | PILOU::ANDERSEN | Deallocating my spare time to free | Fri Dec 02 1988 23:10 | 8 |
325.4 | Pop... | DISCVR::FISTER | Mon Dec 05 1988 10:33 | 19 | |
This weekend I stopped at the Bit Bucket in West Newton for some things. I talked to one of the salesmen there about the problem. His advice was to check the cable, make sure I had the printer accessory set right, etc. I had checked all of these things before, but I decided to try EVERYTHING over again. And voila! I swore I had tried all dip switch settings, but I set the 7/8 bit to 7 and IT WORKED!!! Of course I feel like an idiot, since I had tried every switch setting in every combination, and now it works. Who knows? Now, I must say, Publisher ST is a fantastic program. Anyone interested in DTP should check it out. Using this cheapo printer I can produce some incredible results. A friend of mine has a Deskjet, and said the quality (especially on small text) was unbelievable. Les \8^) |