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From: jlr1801@aim1.tamu.edu (Jeff Rife)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Excel 3.0, Win 3.0 and ATM 1.0 problem
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Date: 24 Apr 91 03:45:28 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.123441.6101@cc.helsinki.fi> antikainen@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>I have a 386-25 with 4 Mb of RAM etc. When using Win 3.0 with Excel 3.0 and
>Adobe Type Manager 1.0 things get difficult. It seems that Excel won't print
>when ATM is on. My printer is HP Deskjet 500 with scalable drivers.
>
>Any solutions to this problem? Is the problem with DJ 500 drivers or something
>else.
>
>thanks!
>

You didn't have this problem with Excel 2.1, did you? :->

Let's add this bug (feature?) of Excel 3.0 to the FAQ, ok?

In WIN.INI, in the [DESKJET,LPTn:] or [DJ500,LPTn:] section add the
following line immediately after the section header:

prtresfac=0

I don't know why it makes it work, but it works.

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