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- DIABLO PHANTOM CHARARACTER FIX
-
- Date: 16-Jan-88
- From: Robert VanNatta
- To: Diane Thome
- Re: WS4 Printer
-
- Diane: Your complaint about a phantom character is not original.
- Quite a few people have made similar complaints. In your case the
- problem is easily fixed. The DIABLO printer driver attempts to
- initialize the printer by giving an ESC 5 and an ESC 4 and the
- beginning of each print job. In a standard DIABLO printer this turns
- FORWARD print on and GRAPHICS print off. Your printer does not
- recognize the ESC 5 so it is printed literally on the paper. To
- remove it follow these instructions.
-
- Go to WSCHANGE and load up with a
-
- WSCHANGE WS
-
- Now access the printer driver $START string by following the path of
- 'BBDC' i.e. from the main menu of wschange push two 'b's, one 'd' and
- one 'c'. Assuming that the DIABLO driver is installed as the default
- driver you should see at the bottom of the screen the following:
-
- 1733 05 1b 35 1b 34 0d 00, etc.
-
- The cursor will be under the '05'
-
- type in:
-
- 03 1B 34 0D 00 00 .
-
- The period will cause the line to redisplay with your changes. the
- '35' is where the '5' is coming from that is bothering you. We are
- now rid of it. Push x a few times to exit. Save your changes and
- you are in business.
-
- R. VanNatta
-