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Which printer driver for Okidata OL830

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From: Mark Miesfeld
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:24
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I have long had minor annoyances printing in postscript mode on my 
Okidata OL830.  I suspected it was the printer driver.  I just recently
had time to install the OS/2 beta and Win-Os2 3.1 off the PDK.  The 
Win-Os2 3.1 beta had a specific driver for the OL830, and this driver
works flawlessly as far as I can tell.

This makes me think even more that my trouble with OS/2 GA + SP is the 
driver.

The annoyances have been slow printing, printscreens either take, literally,
tens of minutes to print, or get dropped altogether.  In EPM 5.51 selecting
print in draft mode sends data to the printer (the data light comes on,)
then after 20 seconds the job disappears with nothing printed.  In the 
WorkFrame, if I select the option to print one of the logs, the same thing
happens.  The data light comes on then after a while it goes out, with
nothing printed.

If I switch the printer to HP emulation and use the HP II driver none of 
these problems occur.  Now in Win-Os2 3.1 I don't seem to have any prob-
lems in postscript mode.

Which is a round about way of asking if others with the OL830 have problems
in postscript mode, and if not, what drivers are you using?  I have tried
both the Apple Laserwriter II and the generic postscript.

--
Mark
miesfeld@caslon.cs.arizona.edu
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Subject: Which printer driver for Okidata OL830
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