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Article #15997Which printer driver for Okidata OL830
From: Mark Miesfeld
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:24
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!ncar!noao!arizona!miesfeld From: miesfeld@cs.arizona.edu (Mark Miesfeld) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Which printer driver for Okidata OL830 Message-ID: <29497@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 9 Jan 93 19:24:44 GMT Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 28