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Re: PMView won't print

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From: Alan Harrison
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:56
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Alan Harrison wrote:

> Peter Nielsen wrote:
>
>> Victor Bien <nospam.vbien@attglobal.net> wrote in message 
>> news:<al4ulj$g7u$1@merki.connect.com.au>...
>>  
>>
>>> When you click on print you just get a popup saying, "There are no
>>> printers defined".
>>>
>>>    I've asked this question at PMView's site but Peter Nielsen can't
>>> help me.
>>>
>>>    My PMView 2000 is ver 2.32.  OS/2 is Warp 4 + FP15.  I did not have
>>> this trouble with my older machine - Warp 4 + FP14.  I have 
>>> deinstalled it and reinstalled (successfully.  When I posted my 
>>> query at PMView's site I was having trouble reinstalling.  This 
>>> problem has gone away).  I have removed my printer object (the main 
>>> one printing to a Lexmark 310 and reinstalled using Lexmark drivers 
>>> dated in 2001.  The actual driver is a version of IBMPCL5.drv.  I 
>>> did not remove other print objects from Connections.  The other 
>>> print objects are Faxprint, DOS printer (uses IBMNull.drv) and 
>>> Postscript.  PMView suggests deinstalling a print object and 
>>> reinstalling stating that in some cases this fixed the problem.  In 
>>> my case it did not.
>>>
>>>   Has anyone else experience this?  Ideas to resolve?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> It's true. I'm stumped. I have never heard of or seen a case like this
>> before (i.e. no printers showing up, although the drivers are
>> installed). If anyone has seen this before, and even better yet,
>> figured out the problem, please speak up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter Nielsen
>> [Author of PMView]
>>  
>>
> I found that my Epson Stylus won't print unless I lower the resolution.
> Alan
>
Sorry, I didn't read that closely.  At one point, I had to edit out all 
my printer references
in the .ini files. De-installing was not clearing that info.
Alan
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