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From: lamb@thumper.bellcore.com (John W. Lamb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DMCS won't print under 1.3
Summary: I've had the same problem
Keywords: Deluxe 1.3 choke
Message-ID: <1415@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: 29 Dec 88 16:08:26 GMT
References: <840@wasatch.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown NJ
Lines: 24

In article <840@wasatch.UUCP>, u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (John M. Olsen) writes:
-> 
-> I just picked up Deluxe Music Construction Set, and found that it only 
-> produces printed output under v1.2 of the OS.  Has anyone else run into 
-> this problem?
-> 
-> When I give it the command to print, the software seems to think 
-> everything is okay, since it has the little cancel box come up, wait
-> around for a while, then go away as if it had just finished printing.
-> No data makes it to the printer.

[I tried mailing this first but it bounced]
I have had the very same symptoms using 1.3, a vanilla 512K Amiga and
a NEC P6 printer.  By setting the printer to octal dump mode, I
discovered that the printer was being sent some initialization strings
which varied with preference settings, but was getting no further
data.  I was able to get printed output in landscape mode with one
score at the bottom of the page, but this is hardly an acceptable
solution.

If anyone else has discovered a way to fix this, please let us know
how you did it.  I suspect it has something to do with getting the
right combination of margin settings in preferences and printer
width in DMCS, but I have not yet discovered the magic numbers.