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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Epson Printer problem
Message-ID: <702@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 91 08:05:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.103115.17498@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jan8.103115.17498@athena.mit.edu> spworley@athena.mit.edu (Spaceman Spiff) writes:
>
>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. 

You could try to modify the printer driver to provide a higher
timeout value. Copy the file to a new name (to not spoil the
original) and use Newzap to patch the value at offset 0095.
In my version of the driver, there is currently a $1E which
stands for 30 seconds. You might increase this to the double
or more. Perhaps it helps.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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