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From: bill@oracle.SCG.HAC.COM (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Star Gemini 10 and Win3
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Date: 21 May 91 19:31:58 GMT
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In article <715@esosun.UUCP> tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida) writes:
>In article <14852@hacgate.UUCP>, bill@oracle (Bill Neisius) writes:
>> The Star printer shares many of the Epson codes, unfortunately they don't
>>have the same vertical resolution ( 1/216 for Epson versus 1/144 for Star);
>>the Epson drivers haven't worked for me.  If anyone can come up with a driver
>>I'd be interested too...
>
>I have a Star SG-10 ('tho I'm hoping for a new Panasonic KXP-1124i
>soon :-) ), and I don't have any problem with MS Windows.

        I thought that the difference in linefeed increment
        explained the problems I experience with the Gemini.
        For example with the Generic IBM/Epson driver loaded
        in CSHOW, printing yields: .1 inch image, .05 inch white space
        alternating down the page. (.15/.1 = 216/144)

>I use the
>driver for the Epson FX-80.

        OK, I tried that:  Epson 9pin driver, FX-80 printer.
        The results were worse than I remembered:  formfeeds,
        beeps, misc. garbage, and occasionally a small amount
        of recognizable print - with white bars alternating down
        the page.  There's something basically wrong here...

>One thing- the printer MUST be in IBM
>mode, or you get excess vertical space when you print 

        ...there. That must be it.  I never even knew that
        the printer had an IBM mode.  The only reference in
        the manual under IBM specifies setting the dip switches
        for no auto linefeed, 8-bit interface.  Nope, that's
        the factory setting, and the current setting on the printer.

How much is that Panasonic anyway?


Bill Neisius
bill@solaria.hac.com