Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!gatech!dcatla!mclek
From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: printer shifts chars...
Message-ID: <18701@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 13:45:28 GMT
References: <7880009@hpuamsa.UUCP> <607@hocpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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In article <607@hocpa.UUCP> rusty@hocpa.UUCP (91341-M.W.HADDOCK) writes:
>In article <7880009@hpuamsa.UUCP> marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister) writes:
>   [Star Gemini 10X printer shifting characters]
>   >
>   >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.
>
>I'd say... CHECK YOUR PRINTER CABLE!

I had a similar thing happen when I first bought my KXP-1124.  Instead of
the least significant bit stuck off (which is apparant by looking at Marco's
example & an ASCII table, I was getting the most significant bit stuck on.

Strangely enough, disconnecting the frame ground wire* at the printer end of
the cable cured the problem.  I never bothered to figure out why it worked;
since the computer & printer are both plugged into the same power strip, the
ground potential couldn't have been THAT different.

*For those who don't have a parallel printer, the frame ground wire comes out
of the bottom of the connector & hangs loose with a spade connector on the
end.  You attach it to a screw on the printer next to the connector.

So... try disconnecting the frame ground wire.  If it's already disconnected,
try putting it on.  If you have a serial printer, get a new cable. :-)

Hope this helps.
-- 
Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek
If potatoes aren't computers, why are there potato chips and potato bugs?