CompuServe Messages

Chris– I guess my message wasn't clear. The switch box I'm using is an electronic switch. Thus, it receives Centronics signals and then passes them on to the printer. Therefore, it needs to have circuitry similar to a printer that receives and handshakes Centronics parallel. It works just fine with 3 other computers (a pc and 2 680×0 family UNIX machines) but not with the Amiga. Like you, I checked and rechecked cable connections but everything is OK. My theory is that the Amiga parallel driving software has marginal timing and thus won't work with some parallel devices. In my case, the electronic switch, in your case (apparently) the typesetter. A long shot would be to hook a parallel printer buffer between the Amiga and the typesetter. It might be that the buffer would be able to recognize the Amiga's handshakes and then when it sent the data on to the typesetter, would produce signals that the typesetter is happy with. I've thought of doing that on my system but haven't run across a buffer that I could borrow. Tom