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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ImageWriter II making undesired HEX
Message-ID: <3765@crystal9.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 19:54:30 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:


>/* Written  1:43 am  Jun 23, 1990 by potency@violet.berkeley.edu */
> > My ImageWriter II has been occasionaly making HEX dumps rather than
> > printing text.

I have a home setup where I routinely dial-in to my work 
Macintosh network (via Shiva Netmodem/NetSerial and Dial-in
software).  To do this, appletalk must be turned on.  This 
always uses the Printer port.  If a printer is plugged into
it, it will spit out lots of odd alpha-numerics (random).

Oddly, the imagewriter driver will redirect output to 
the modem port automatically.  The first time that happened,
I was stumped for quite a while until I figured this out.

The bottom line is, if the hex is in neat columns then the
printer is in its test mode.  Does it stop after a while
or go forever until you turn the printer off?  Test mode
goes on forever.  It may be that you are hitting the test 
switch when turning on the printer or the printer is spontaneously
going into test mode (which is a hardware fault).

IF the hex is random and occurs during statup, then it is
probably the appletalk problem.

Good Luck.  Let me know what the problem ultimately was.
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