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From: oster@ucblapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Wanted: sources to MockTerm (really Imagewriter stuff)
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Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 19:42:51 EST
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Summary: Tips for the new printer driver DTR = Switch2, - 3 Open.

In article <4416@dartvax.UUCP> bono@dartvax.UUCP (Christopher North) writes:
>     Today I tried to print a macwrite document on a double sided disk using 
>the new imagewriter file and the new system.  It printed fine for about ten
>lines then it printed a blurb of @'s and then proceeded to feed all of my paper
>through my imagewriter. I moved the document to another disk containing the old
>system, old imagewriter file and proceeded to print the document without any
>problem.  Anyone else have this problem??   

Apple did a lot of work in the new drivers to make more efficient use of
the Mac and of the 9600 baud wire.  It has been my experience that the new
printer drivers, because they are faster, are more sensitive to
handshaking than the old drivers.  The solution is to make certain your
imagewriter is handshaking with the Mac.  Check your imagewriter manual:
Dip Switch 2, switch 3 should be set for DTR handshaking (I think that it
should be OPEN, but the correct setting is given in the back of the
imagewriter manual.)  Note: this setting is not compatible with the
current release of the ThunderScan software -- you have to flip the switch
back to Xon/Xoff handshaking to use thunderscan, then back to DTR
handshaing to print reliably.

Now I've got a printing problem: I have an old copy of MacLabeler.  With
the new system software, the disk labels it prints are 1/4" to wide to fit
on the disk!  Anybody else notice anything like this?
--- David Phillip Oster
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