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#Amiga Printing…

    25-Jan-95 22:01:17
Fm: Nicholas A. Patrin 74107,1763
To: JERRY HATCHETT 76460,266
########### Can anyone offer any tips on printing from the Amiga? Until recently, I've never even had a printer hooked up to my 4000, and have done all my printing by transferring everything over to the PC. Now that I've hooked up an HP DeskJet 550C to the 4000, I'm *still* having to ################### Funny you should ask. A few days ago I posted a similar question on the IBM/Lexmark forum (I have a Lexmark 4039 laser printer that I want to use with my Amiga). The response that I got from the SysOp is that the Amiga parallel port is not strong enough to push my printer….the signal levels are not strong enough…and that I would either get garbage out, or no communication at all. His sugestion was to connect serially (but how to do that is still a TBD for me). Nick