#Amiga Printing…
26-Jan-95 05:39:47
Sb: #99863-#Amiga Printing…
Fm: Nathan Wahl 71673,252
To: JERRY HATCHETT 76460,266
Jerry,
How you been, guy?
As for the Amiga parallel port not having enough 'push', I don't believe
that. Too many other things run too well for this not to have been a big
deal earlier.
Check the parallel port pins for bent ones, and look around here for some
print drivers to use. Also, instead of graphic dump, try printing
directly from AdPro if you have it, as it will try to do full 24-bit
printing. Even DPaint should work fine, maybe even TPaint.
This really shouldn't be that big of a problem, and I don't want to see
you wear out your shoes moving those floppies back and forth…
That garbage you see is the printer actually putting out the ASCII version
of each of the bytes the Amiga is sending it. Lotsa wierd characters and
carriage returns in it. Probably some backfeeds which'll drive an inkjet
wacko. The driver/software you are using needs to convert this info to
graphic commands for the printer. Make sure that 'verbatum' ISN'T
selected as one of the options.
If you still want to try, I've got some print drevers for the HP series on
a shareware CD-ROM that I could send along (with docs and registration
forms, of course) that just may help.
Regards.
Nate Wahl
Emerald Video