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- From: rocky@nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com (Dave Kennard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Printing problems (was: Dongles affecting ...)
- Message-ID: <1k16ttINN7ct@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:10:21 GMT
- References: <ssudavss.727956414@reading> <1k0kf2INNm5o@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <1k0pnlINN233@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk>
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- In article <1k0pnlINN233@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> rap@bnr.co.uk (Richard Porter) writes:
- >In article <1k0kf2INNm5o@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> andyf@uk.sun.com
- >(Andy Fox) writes:
-
- Me Too time!!
-
- >>I have also noticed this problem.
-
- >>I am using an A5000, RO3.1, DeskJet 500C and Impression 2.
-
- >I have an A5000, RO3.0 (sore point), JP150 and Acorn DTP etc.
-
- A5000, Imp 2, Artworks, DJ500 (Not C!)
- RO 3.0 ... VERY SORE POINT!!
-
- >>I don't think that the problem lies with the dongle, though.
- >>It would appear that the A5000 or maybe RO3.1, just doesn't know about
- >>the printer, unless it is switched on when you power up the A5000.
-
- >Yes, I get that too, and I also get the printer locked up if I abort a
- >print in the middle when using RO3 printer drivers (i.e. not 1W+). I then
- >need to switch the printer off and on, or even reboot, to get it to work.
-
- Ditto - except rebooting A5000 not necessary.
-
- >>On power-up, the A5000 forces the DeskJet to do it's initialisation tests
- >>again and after that all printing operations work fine.
-
- >>Perhaps someone more versed with the printer hardware can tell us what's
- >>really going on.
-
- >There's another problem I get when printing more than one copy. Spurious
- >characters appear at the top of the second and subsequent copies of the same
- >page, but the first copy of each page comes out cleanly. Any ideas?
-
- Ditto on RO 3.0 printer driver - but I have been using the Ace Pro-driver for
- a while now, and the spurious characters' problem went away - so I assume
- that there is a bug in the RO3.0 printer driver. Does the bug persist in
- the RO3.1 (supplied) printer driver?
-
- >Richard Porter
-
- Dave Kennard.
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