Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!anise.ac!ivucsb!dan From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: printer shifts chars... Message-ID: <780@ivucsb.UUCP> Date: 9 May 89 18:07:29 GMT References: <7880009@hpuamsa.UUCP> Reply-To: ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell) Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California Lines: 24 In article <7880009@hpuamsa.UUCP> marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister) writes: |I'm trying to get my Star Gemini 10X printer to work with my Amy, |but it garbles my text files. It seems to shift some of the |characters by one position, for example; |The line reading: |Addbuffers df1: 50 |gets out on my printer like: |@ddbtffdrr df0: 40 |And I get a lot of newlines and formfeed characters between lines. Bit 0 (the least signifigant bit) is getting lost somewhere. Check your cable, as most likely a broken wire in the cable is the problem. Bit 0 is pin 2 on the amiga side, but I don't remember which pin it is on the printer side, possibly someone else could provide the info. Wiggling the cable might actually (temporarily) fix the problem. If you know someone else with an Amiga and a parallel printer, try switching cables, printers, and computers, so you can isolate the problem. It's definitely a hardware problem, not a software problem. By the way, it IS a parallel printer, right? -- -- Dan Howell Note: UUCP address thru nessus is no longer valid. -- Life is complex; it has real and imaginary parts.