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From: athomson@nodename.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: printer shifts chars...
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Date: 10 May 89 13:30:04 GMT
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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
>Thanks for any suggestions!!
>Marco Lesmeister

The problem would appear to be that your printer isn't seeing the signal on
data line 0 on your parallel port, therefore any characters with bit 0 set
are being seen by the printer as one ascii character less than it should,
e.g. 'A' (65) is seen as '@' (64) etc.

Could be either the printer, the cable or your parallel port, but I'd check
out the cable first. Can you borrow another to try it...?