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Conference 7.286::atarist

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

325.0. "This @#%* printer!" by DISCVR::FISTER () Thu Dec 01 1988 10:28

    
    	   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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325.1lots of options to go wrongDELNI::GOLDSTEINPlesiochronous percussionThu Dec 01 1988 20:2312
    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
325.2One out of threeLEDDEV::WALLACEFri Dec 02 1988 02:0711
    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
325.3Does it do selftest properly ?PILOU::ANDERSENDeallocating my spare time to freeFri Dec 02 1988 23:108
325.4Pop...DISCVR::FISTERMon Dec 05 1988 10:3319
    
    	   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^)