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- From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Dongles affecting Printing
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:53:48 -0000
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <ssudavss.727956414@reading> ssudavss@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Captain_Kwok) writes:
- >
- >Sometimes when I try to print something to the printer it won't print anything.
- >When I look at the printer queue it says that it has done about 4% ( I assume
- >this has been downloaded to the printer).
- >
- .
- .
- .
- >Note. I don't have to have Artworks loaded all of the time, I just have to
- >have run it and quit.
- >
- >Any Ideas?
- >
-
- There's probably some module you need to have loaded (from inside
- Artworks) which needs to be loaded before the Artworks dongle allows
- you access to your nice parallel port. This is similar to that which
- is needed for CC's fast printer drivers - only in that case it's so
- you don't get garbage due to the knackered cabel you need to use.
-
- Seems like the Artworks dongle does a bit more than get in the way and
- reduce the signal at the printer.... Dongles - Don't you just luv 'em.!
-
- Note: I don't have Artworks, so don't know this is the case for sure,
- but it wouldn't supprise me in the slightest, CC seem to have addopted
- as many ways of stopping you printing from anyting other than their
- products as they can (or at least making life difficult for you).
-
- Ian
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