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From: andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Andrew Rossmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Printer prints double spaced...why?!?!?!?!?!
Message-ID: <[250effc3:5501.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 89 02:00:04 GMT
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>Item: 5501 by woolard at uns-helios.nevada.edu (0 responses)
>Author: [Mike Woolard]
>  Subj: Printer prints double spaced...why?!?!?!?!?!
>    I have a TRS-80 Line Printer VI that I now have hooked
>up to my Laser XT with the standard Centronics printer cable.
>Everything works fine except for one thing... Everything it
>prints is double spaced (2 printed line feeds at each line of
>single spaced text).  Is there a remedy for this problem? I have
>looked at the printer controls and do not see a switch to control
>line spacing, so I am at odds as what to do at this point.
>       Any suggestions ????????????????????????
>   Mike Woolard
>   woolard@uns-helios.nevada.edu

  Tandy often lists their CR only setup as NL (New Line.) Check to see if
there is a switch that says NL=NL or similar. You generally want the
settings LF=LF and CR=CR. The problem is that the Tandy standard (before
MS-DOS) was that CR only would also line feed (the TRS-80 series did this.)
MS-DOS uses CR/LF, so the printer goes forward a line for the CR, and then
again for the LF.

  Andrew Rossmann
  andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM