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#New Deskjet 500
Message #119036
I've been reading on the HP Forum that HP has introduced a Deskjet 500 that now has waterproof ink and prints 3 pages/min. Its best feature, though is that it can print scalable fonts through Windows 3.0. Does anyone know if it's possible to duplicate the scalable font feature with…
Tom, The printer driver makes sure the computer and the printer "talk the same language"…but that has nothing to do with a hardware problem which is what you have. Just like your printer won't work with the cable disconnected, it also won't work right if the cable isn't connected properly.…
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#Printer HELP!!
Message #118908
Remove the pin? Silly me! Here I was thinking that the printer driver was supposed to make sure that the printer and computer understood each other!
Color Deskjet Printing
Message #118753
I just downloaded this from Soft Logix's BBS. I though it would be interesting to others: INKMUN INKS SELLS REFILLS FOR THE DESLJET, DESLJET PLUS OR THE DESKWRITER INK CARTRIDGES. THEY CARRY BLACK, RED BLUE YELLOW, GREEN, BURGUNDY, GOLD, AND BROWN. THEY ALSO CARRY CLEANING KITS FOR CATRIDGES WHEN YOU…
Barry, Yes…that was a mistype…it was supposed to be "pins 19-30" Don
Thank you Don, your first mesage kinda straigntened me out but I will go back and get GND on 19-30. I must assume your message had a typo in it when you said "…single wire is run to pin2 19-30…" as pin 2 = Data0. IF this is not the…
Dave, If you don't set the serial rate correctly…nothing will help. Find a manual, or go to an Apple dealer's and find out what baud rate the printer runs at….or how to set it to a specific rate. Then set your serial preferences for the same rate. Don
Don, Thank you for your reply. I dont have any idea what the baud rate for this printer is. I did set it up through the serial and not the parrellel (sp) port. I found out that Redman Cable in Seattle makes the cable I need. They make special cables…
Ray, no – ROOTS is just like all the other forums. There are 11 sections for messages and 12 libraries. I cannot imagine why you are having a problem with it! It is a very active forum, with messages scrolling pretty much the same as here – and a very…
David, This may be silly, but have you selected the proper baud rate in preferences for the serial port, and selected SERIAL as the interface in your printer preferences? Don
Barry, Amiga A1000 pin Centronics pin 1 (strobe) 1 2 (data 0) 2 3 (data 1) 3 4 (data 2) 4 5 (data 3) 5 6 (data 4) 6 7 (data 5) 7 8 (data 6) 8 9 (data 7) 9 10 (ACK) 10 11 (BUSY) 11 12 (POUT) 12…
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#Printer HELP!!
Message #118153
Betty: Sorry to jump in on this thread, but I thought you could help me with something. A coworker asked me to drop a message in the ROOTS forum to help him locate the town from which an ancestor came in the 1700s. I set Whap! to join up and…
Thank you for the pinout differences, Don. This will be of enormous value in getting my PJ-1080A to work with the used A1000 I bought for the kids here! -BArry
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#PAR CONNECTIONS
Message #118132
Barry, The A1000 and A2000 ports have pins 14,15,16 and 23,24,25 reversed. In other words, what's on the A1000 @ pin locations 14,15 and 16 is now on pins 23,24 and 25. And what was on pins 23,24 and 25 is now on pins 14,15 and 16. Don
#Printer prob.
Message #118131
I am trying to get my amiga to drive an Inagewriter II printer. I have installed the ImagewriterII driver from the Extras disk (Wor workbench 1.3) I bought an apple cable for an Apple IIe to ImagewriterII. That cable is male at one end so I got a gender-bender to…
#Printer Cable
Message #118113
CAn anyone give me the Epson pinouts for A-1000 DB-25 -> CEntronics please?
Ernie, There is a printer driver for the SR-10 that I did a lot of work on to add a number of features and make 1.3 compliant. From what I can tell, this printer has the same command set as the SG-10 (a person sent me a copy of the…
William, The printer I use is no longer brand new, but I like it – the NEC P5200. It has a color option, seven built-in typefaces in several sizes each, and works with the NEC Pinwriter driver from the Workbench. This is a heavy-duty printer, with excellent paper-handling abilities. You…
#color printer
Message #117859
HELP!! I have owned an Amiga 500 for a little over a year now and have been slowly (and methodically) building it into the system of my dreams. I have decided that it is time to upgrade from my old EPSON 8 pin to a 24 pin printer but am…
Ernie, I used one of the drivers from Library 7 when I was using the Star SG-10 printer. It worked quite nicely except that I was never able to get the spacing quite right. If I printed multi-page documents, they would be gin to run off the bottom of the…
#Star SG-10 Printer
Message #117838
Has anyone here used a Star SG-10 printer with an Amiga, AMAX, or XT-BB? What printer driver did you use? How was the print quality? How about speed on graphic dumps? No witty signature, just: Ernie Gorrie, Port Coquitlam, B.C., Canada.
Michael: I bought an XB-2410 after thinking over the market for 24-pin printers pretty hard. I had a 9-pin Panasonic KXP1091 so was disposed toward the Panasonic 1124. But the XB-2410 was too good a deal to pass up, what with all its on-board fonts, color option, quiet mode, etc.…
Ed, Use the Diablo630 driver in your printer preferences. Set all DIP switches on the Diablo to OFF. The big problem I can't help you with is what speed to set the serial port at (via preferences). If it's not set right, you'll get garbage on the printer if anything…
Betty: Once again, I typed before I thought. Thanks for correcting me. I have a Panasonic KX-P1124 and use the LQ2500 driver and it works great. I have also figured out how to get laser quality output from it. If you use Gprint and print your 1 bit plane image…
#Diablo 630 setup?
Message #117769
Can anyone help me set up an Diablo 630 printer with a serial port to work with the Amiga? I've been given the machine 'sans' manuals. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this would spare me having to buy a printer. Thanks, Ed
Hello Roger Sorry for the slow reply. First, I know very little about the use of the graphics mode of this printer, as I am sure you already know. I bought the printer primarily for the high print speed and one graphic dump application. Now I have a NEED to…
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LQ2500 Driver
Message #117759
Hello Don Sorry for the slow reply. I understand about PAR: and PRT:. I decided to use PAR: as it seems less prone to a typo. Now all I have to do is tear about a few meg of programs to implement it. Thanks for your help. Jesse Shadle West…
Slip of the finger, Branden – the printer drivers are in AmigaTech. But there IS a driver for the LQ2500 over there – pretty new. Probably still in library 1, as well as in the Printer Driver lib. .Betty
Michael – You don't need to find a printer driver for the XB2410, there are two drives in WB1.3 that already work well with this printer. The EpsonQ driver will work and the NEC_Pinwriter will also work. The entire Star line of printers are pretty much Espson clones and will…
Herman, Sure you can get a printer for $180. But the new printer won't be a paintjet. Tell you what…I'll trade you my working Epson JX-80 for your non working Paintjet…ok? I mean the Epson cost $500 and I've added the NLQ upgrade to it from Dresselhaus at another $80.…
Paul: What you need is the Epson LQ2500 driver. You can find it over in Amigaarts, in the printer driver section (not sure which one) Branden Beachy 72557,107
#Star XB-2410
Message #117686
Can anybody tell me if there is a printer driver available for the Star XB-2410 printer? If one is not available, how well does the Printer Driver Generator program work in general? Also, has anyone had any experience with this printer? It looks impressive to me and if I can…
Paul, You can try the NEC pinwriter Driver. It's located on your Extras diskette. I should give you some additional densities. regards, greg
#Broken Printer
Message #117651
My Paintjet is broken. Hewlett-Packard wants $180(!) to fix it. I probably can get a new printer for that.
#Panasonic
Message #117649
Help! I need a driver for a Panasonic KX-P1124 printer. It is compatiable with the EpsonQ driver, but when used with ProWrite 3.0 it gives only a 360×180 dpi. The Panasonic is capable of 360×360. I would like to use the higher res if possible. Any suggestions would be welcome.
NX-1000 Rainbow
Message #117535
Is there a specific printer driver for the NX-1000 Rainbow. I see NX-1000 printer drivers listed in dl7, but is there one for the rainbow (color) model? Or will the NX-1000 driver work on the rainbow fine? Thanks, Pat
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LQ2500 Driver
Message #117528
The LQ series is not capable of TRUE 360 DPI. In that res. (density 4 from prefs) the dots are not aligned directly in a grid fashion, but each row it offset diagonally from the last. Now add the fact that a nylon ribbon is being used and your greyscale…
But it ain't the heat — it's the humidity! An electrically warmed box would not per se be any less humid than a cool one. In fact, a warm box will contain more water in its air than a cold box at the same RH. Maybe what we need is…
Jesse, I found that one on a local BBS and uploaded it. I don't have an Epson LQ printer, so I could not test it out. Sorry it was not what you wanted. .Betty
#LQ2500 Driver
Message #116925
Hello Betty I was very happy to see the LQ2500 driver, but alas, on my LQ2550 the following happens in Excellence!: All colors fail to match program selection. Graphics (Normal Mode) prints only garbage. In Basic (Amiga and Hi Soft) most control codes fail. I have tried to use the…
Signmaker
Message #116780
I am looking for somebody who uses a signmaker IV (from Gerber) with his amiga/exit
Jim– I've been using 2 manual switch boxes for a couple of years with no problems. It's only with the new auto-switch that the problem occurs. My setup has 4 computers (including the A1000), and 2 printers: the IIP and a P2200. I used a 4 way to select a…
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HP Deskjet Paper
Message #116662
Mike: Are you familiar with the Humidity down here in FL? While it might use less electricity, It'd probably cost lots more for all the silica gel or salt you'd be buying. Does it tell you anything that corn flakes have to be kept in the refridgerator (or a crisper)…
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#A1000 Parallel?
Message #116611
Tom, This may not directly answer your question but my setup goes through two different A/B boxes (a Bal 100 and a Hymco tech box..Both manual switch) to get to two printers (Xerox C-150 and a HP deskjet) as well as digiview and a future sounds unit. I have had…
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HP Deskjet Paper
Message #116610
Danny, Well, I, too, live on the west coast of Florida, so I know what you mean about humidity. I haven't yet tried to take my stuff outside, but I do know that a wet finger doesn't make the ink run from the new cartridge in my DJ+, so maybe…
Inkjet printers
Message #115619
Mark, Try Go Amigo (800) 232-6442. I bought my Xerox 4020 printer from them a couple years ago and their ad in AmigaWorld states that they also sell the HP Paintjet and Deskjet. May I make a suggestion? If you do decide to get a color inkjet printer, go with…
Inkjet printers
Message #115615
Mark, I have a Xerox 4020 no longer being used that I'll sell 'ya! 415.552.1648 Jan
Mike, I downloaded quite some time back the text files {which followed the thread on refilling DJ cartridges, so I am somewhat familiarqEHwith it. I haven't hadxD occasion to refill mine, yet, but will probably try some of the suggestions from that thread. I recall mention of the Berol product,…
Keith, Swap the 2 8520's for each other. These things are very static sensitive and one of them may have gotten zapped on installation if care was not taken. So swap them and try your printer again. If it now works, you need a new 8520. Greg Greg White /…
There is a thread going over in the HP Forum that is probably older than we are. but I just started following it recently when I got a DJ+. It has to do with reinking DJ and DJ+ cartridges. They have tried everything from chocolate syrup to liquid shoe polish.…
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