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#Need help with printer

    24-Sep-94 19:09:09
Sb: #Need help with printer
Fm: Karl F. Kugel 72467,2474
To: Wolf Faust 100116,1070
O.K., I'll try to be more specific. The word processor I'm using, excellence! 3.0, allows selection of the internal printer font, or so it says. The manual states that this is done by sending FON# codes to the printer. However, selecting different font numbers have no effect whatsoever, with the printer using the default font regardless of setting, at least when using a laserjet 2P or 4P. Now, using Word Perfect, with its own printer drivers, the fonts CAN be changed by changing the font numbers just as they should be. The assumption I therefore make is that the preferences Laserjet driver is not correctly transmitting the FON# information. I'm trying to confirm that, and wondering if the printer drivers in Studio would give better results. The alternative is that excellence! is slightly broken, which I can't do anything about. What really bothers me is that even the front panel settings (for the default font) on the 4P seem to be overridden by whatever is being sent from excellence!, so I can't get the silly thing to print anything but courier. -Karl