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From: hue@coney.island.COM (Pond Scum)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: QMS Colorscript 100 30i problem (solved)
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Date: 19 Feb 91 07:49:23 GMT
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In case anyone else has problems with a QMS Color PostScript thermal printer:

Last week we got a QMS Colorscript 100 30i.  I got into the PostScript
executive to get it run at 38400 baud, but when I flipped the comm
switch to position "1", I couldn't get any response out of it until about
a minute later.  I hit CTRL-T to get the status and it kept saying:

PS>%%[ status: waiting; source: serial 9 ]%%

which was puzzling because there wasn't anything plugged into the 9 pin
connector.  I called QMS and they didn't know what was going on, but said
setting the baud rate to 0 disables the channel.  So I typed:

9 0 0 setsccbatch

and from then on I could run the RS232 port at 38400 baud with no problems.
We didn't have this problem with the older model 30 printer.


-Jonathan	hue@island.COM