Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Parallel PS interface experience/problems
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.151222.8830@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1990Dec17.143230.14116@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 90 15:12:22 GMT

Just as a test take that same WordPerfect page and instead of printing
to Port LPT1: set it to print to a dos file called LPT1

This results in WP thinking it is writing a disk file and dos
saying this disk file is a magic name send it out the port. The
result is that WP does not write directly to the hardware.
If this then prints correctly then I would blame WP for the problem.

Some of the newer versions of WP 5.1 (yes virginia there are a million
different 5.1 versions roaming around...) have an option on the printer
setup that says Print direct to hardware yes/no? or something to that
effect. Saying Yes can give better speed according to WP. Saying no
I suspect makes things work properly on some machines where the
hardware is "exactly the same as IBM... except..."

tj

P.S. Let me know the results...