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From: spworley@athena.mit.edu (Spaceman Spiff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Epson Printer problem
Summary: error requester is a pain!
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.103115.17498@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 10:31:15 GMT
Sender: spworley@athena.mit.edu
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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I have a really old wide-carrage Epson FX-286 dot matrix printer
hooked up to the parallel port on my 3000. I have no problems
printing text or graphics, and I complement Commodore on how
easy it was to configure! I use the Epson-XOld printer driver in
the 2.0 preferences.

My problem: When printing large ( 3 or more pages) files, I keep
getting a "Printer trouble: check printer and cabling" requestor.
Meanwhile, the printer is merrily chugging away, no glitch, no pause,
nothing. If I click on the "resume" button, the requestor goes away. 
The REALLY annoying part is that the requester returns about once a
minute! I have to click each time. 

I don't know the cause, but my guess is that the printer in hi-quality
mode is SO SLOW (1 page every minute and a half) that AmigaDos thinks
that there must be a hangup in passing the data along, so puts up the
requestor. 

My question: any fixes?? I cannot print long program listings without
being at the computer, so its pretty important and not just an annoyance.
What can I do do fix this?

I'd appreciate any help from anyone on the net. Email if you have any
ideas. Thanks for the help!

-Steve

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Steve Worley                                           spworley@athena.mit.edu
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