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From: rap@peck.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Panasonic printer woes...
Keywords: Printer Settings
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Date: 14 Jul 89 20:32:40 GMT
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In article <30045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes:
>
>     I have a KXP-1124, which is supposed to be the greatest thing since peanut
>butter, but I can't get those glorious printouts everyone talks about.  I use
>the 1.3 NEC driver, I even read the 1.3 manual.  I just don't know the right
>"settings" to get optimal printouts.  What can I say, I'm a semi-novice :-).
>Can someone, anyone, help me get the most out of this printer?
>
>-Evan

For the sake of semi-novices everywhere... I am requesting the aid of the
Amiga community (via EMAIL or MAIL please)...  there is now, in the 1.3
enhancer docs, a lot of information about printer support.  There is, no
doubt, a large body of information still to be made available, and it is,
cumulatively in the heads and hands of those who have struggled with
their own printers to get good output.  I would like to volunteer to
collect that information and make it available to new users, perhaps
in the form of a magazine article or whatever.  Such things as
"where can I find a driver for XXX printer" (names of available 
drivers on various systems for downloading), settings in Preferences
that give proper output (contrast, what avoids extraneous line feeds
and so on), I mean WHATEVER you figured out on your own that was not
documented.  Maybe someone knows of a source who has been collecting
printer drivers for the past 3 years and offers PD/almostPD disks
with the drivers available.  I can summarize and post something if
the responses dictate it.  There is not much in the Amiga Companion
about printers and printer drivers... I sorta defer to the 1.3 enhancer
docs on that... but there is probably a lot to be learned from the
sandpaper-based experiences of printer owners.  My net address is:

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Rob Peck