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From: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Help me with Canon PJ-1080A and DPaint
Message-ID: <1626@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Oct-86 22:50:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: vax135.1626
Posted: Sat Oct  4 22:50:15 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 19:22:12 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Keywords: Canon inkjet dpaint spatter
Summary: Trouble requester

Sorry if this has been asked before;
Does anyone have any tips on getting the Canon PJ-1080A inkjet printer
to work with Deluxe Paint?  I refuse to write on my protected DPaint.
I got a disk with installed 1080A driver from Progressive Peripherals,
labeled with "'CANON WORKBENCH' for DPAINT etc." but it seems flaky?
By the way I run Rel 1.1 on 512K + 512K Alegra, but the Alegra is not
being installed by the canon disk at present.
I get "Software Failure" from dpaint a lot more than from my usual WB.
These failures seems related to leaving the WB disk's window open?
So I reboot, open CLI and close the WB window, then dpaint runs ok.

So then I dpaint (via the Canon disk's CLI) and try to print, and it gives
me the requester about "Problems printing; check cables and printer" and no
output.  I've had mixed results printing a Notepad image:  sometimes it
works, sometimes no output.  For the Notepad case, I think it worked
when the printer was turned on AFTER powering-on the Amiga (this is
the opposite of what the printer instructions say to do).  But neither
order of power-on works with dpaint.  Is the setting of the BOLD switch
relevant here?

While I'm asking for help, does anyone have suggestions for a printer paper
for the PJ-1080A which causes less ink spatter?  A more porous surface
perhaps?  There is a fine spray (much finer than the dot size) that
makes text look unpleasant, more so when the BOLD switch is set.
Strangely, I can't detect any spatter at all in Notepad graphic-mode prints.
I'm using the "standard" roll paper for the Radio Shack CGP-220.

	Thank you, jet-setters.
	Charles Poirier  USENET  vax135!cjp