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From: davewh@microsoft.UUCP
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Subject: weird printer results
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Date: 1 Apr 91 16:42:08 GMT
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I was using AWGS this morning when I started a printout from the
Spreadsheet. It printed solid black in any cell that had data in it.
Nice grid lines elsewhere.

I have ROM 1 GS, 5 meg, 5.0.4 (printer driver 4.1), ZipGSX (with
Todd's INIT - although it isn't needed). This happened whether I used
the printer driver on 5.0.4 or the one that came with AWGS
(Imagewriter.CL). Everything printed out fine if I used draft mode.

I got strange behavior in draft mode with the 5.0.4 driver - it
seemed to be printing each chunk of text from right to left - even
when the head was mainly scanning left to right (in fact, it never
scanned right to left).

So, this is how it printed:

recall head to left
jump right some
begin scanning left to print some text
jump right some more
scan left to print more text
etc.
linefeed
recall head to left

The characters were also compressed (not 80 chars per line).

The Imagewriter.CL driver printed absolutely normally in draft mode -
all scanning was normal; 80 chars/line.

Any ideas?

Dave Whitney	Microsoft Corp, Work Group Apps  dcw@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu or
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