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From: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Printmaster Probl [Please don't laugh!]
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.132552.28784@pmsmam.uucp>
Date: 18 Feb 91 13:25:52 GMT
References: <1991Feb17.025602.24336@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1991Feb17.104051.19347@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
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In article <1991Feb17.104051.19347@nntp-server.caltech.edu> josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Simplelogic) writes:
>shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Annie) writes:
>
>
>>I realize that Printmaster and the like is a pretty elementary program..
>>so please don't laugh at me...but I have a shareware clone of Printmaster,
>>AND Printmaster, and with both of them they print out cards that are
>>longer than an 8x11.5 sheet of paper, the result being that there is
>>a perf line running through the card.
>
>>I've tried the different printer drivers, always with the same problem..
>>including the driver for my printer, and it's various modes <I hav a
>>Panasonix KX-P1124>.  
>
>Many (all?) 24-pin Epson compatible printers have this problem.  Apparently,
>it doesn't emulate the 9-pin modes exactly.  One possibility is to run a
>program before hand to adjust the line-feed length, but that might not
>work.  Failing that, you'll just have to user another printer.
>
>--Joseph
>-- 
>Joseph I. Chiu, Department of Computer Science, Calif. Inst. of Technology
>1-57 Fleming House, Caltech, Pasadena 91126.   (818) 585-0393
>josephc@coil.caltech.edu               ...Just another lost soul in the universe

I had the same problem with my Seikosha SL80AI (also a 24-pin printer).
On mine, I solved the problem by switcing from Epson LQ mode to IBM mode
and telling Printmaster that I was running an IBM printer.

No problem after that.

Hope this helps!
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