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In article <3f06na$161$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>,
	matt@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Matt Bruce) writes:
>Hi,
>
>All that happens on my printer is that Draft text gets printed at the
>top of the page and little bits a various places on the page. My
>friend's Star gets nothing but Draft "A"'s all over the page.

I bought a Lexmark ExecJet IIc before I upgraded to Warp.  It didn't print
with OS/2 2.11, but did with DOS/Windows.  Win-OS/2 claimed the LPT1 port
was not present.  Lexmark said the problem was with OS/2, the OS/2 people
said it was a problem with the cable.  I tried four different cables, and
then bought an expensive IBM cable.  Still no luck.  Called IBM Helpware
again; this time they said the parallel port needed replacing !  (I have an
IBM ThinkPad 720 with Micro Channel architecture and an 'enhanced' parallel
port.)

I upgraded to Warp.  The supplied driver didn't didn't print, so I got one 
via FTP from ftp.lexmark.com.  Still didn't work.  Changed the CONFIG.SYS
from DEVICE=PRINT02.SYS to DEVICE=PRINT02.SYS /IRQ.  Still no luck.  But now
Windows 3.1 running under OS/2 prints to LPT1 without complaining that it
isn't present.  Doesn't print to LPT1.OS2 though.

The 'Printing in OS/2' Help book says to make sure DMA is set to 'shared',
in the BIOS.  I've tried both shared and disabled, and just about everything
in between.  Still no luck.  All I get is a couple of pages of garbage, and
then, if it's plain text, I get most of the text.  About one in ten of the
characters are missing - sometimes these are linefeeds so I get two lines
printed together.  The rest just looks like bad spelling.

Nothing prints in OS/2.

Please help.  I don't want to give up OS/2, it's too addictive.  But if it
can't even print . . .

Thanks a lot,

Faheem
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              Yippeee !  I've got OS/2 Warp on my PC !!