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From: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: AWGS Printing / IW buffer prob
Keywords: AWGS, Imagewriter, buffer
Message-ID: <1788@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 89 23:20:58 GMT
Reply-To: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Organization: Purdue University
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Recently, I've been experiencing some odd behavior out of AWGS (As if that
didn't ever happen :-).  Basically, when I've been printing to the printer
using the IMAGEWRITER driver, not the .CL one, the printer gets the setup
command (or whatever it's called) and runs the printhead over to the left
and back to the middle, seeming to get all nice and ready to print away.
However, nothing happens.  It just sits there.  I have an Orange Micro
64K buffer installed in this, and when I do a rapid on-off of the select button
the printer prints out the buffer, which is that left-middle thing, and then
proceeds on fine with the page.  When I get to the second page, it does that
setup thing again and appears to get stuck until I printout what's in the
buffer again.  It appears that AWGS is waiting to find out if the printer
is there, on-line, whatever, that the setup thing worked, before it goes
on to print.  However, it seems that only a re-print of whatever is in the
buffer clears up this problem.

Facts about hardware:
Apple IIgs/2.25 Meg
AWGS1.0
ImagewriterII with 64K Orange Micro buffer installed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  BTW, I haven't determined if the
IMAGEWRITER.CL driver will do this but from a page print I had of done with
it, it appears it will also.

kareth.