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From: blew@tc.fluke.COM (Bob Lewandowski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Epson printer driver of MS windows
Summary: NEC printer un-supported by MS Windows/Excel
Keywords: printer driver windows NEC
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Date: 22 Mar 89 03:48:48 GMT
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In article <745@dms.UUCP> morris@dms.UUCP (Jim Morris) writes:
>
>Does anyone know how to write (or fix) printer drivers for MS windows??
>
>The problem is that the current version of epson9.drv that came with
>MS Excel (and presumably MS windows) stinks.
>
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>Jim Morris.         {motcsd|weitek}!dms!morris or morris@dms.UUCP 
>           Atari Games Corporation, Sycamore Drive, Milpitas CA 95035.
>       (Arcade Video Game Manufacturer, NOT Atari Corp. ST manufacturer).
>Any opinions expressed are probably my own, and not those of Atari Games Corp.


The same can be said of the MS Windows / Excel driver for the NEC
P5200 and P5300, only you can say it louder! I couldn't get it to
work at all. "Internal error 0001" one time and "Internal error 0003"
the next. MS tech support asked if I had a mouse driver or any TSR's
installed and when I timidly said yes the guy said that I had to get
rid of all that junk and then try it again. I never fiddled with it 
again, mostly because the driver for the NEC P5300 doesn't support
anything but 8 1/2 in. paper and I want to use my wide carriage
printer for what I intended it for, big spread sheets ! It also doesn't
support most the internal fonts that the NEC has, only the font cards.

The Epson LQ driver mostly works with my machine, but if I try to print
a large two page sheet, Excel says it's printing and the printer hiccups
a couple of times but nothing else happens and then Excel sits there and
smiles thinking it has done something wonderful !!  It must be that stupid,
memory hogging mouse driver that I still have installed !!

I'm just a lowly hardware type and am not interested in attempting to
hack out a printer driver, but if some kind and generous soul out
there has anything that might help, or could aim me toward such a thing
you would have my eternal gratitude! Well, at least 20 minutes worth!
 B-)  b-)  B-)

Sign me un-impressed by microsoft Excel !! !!

---Bob
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