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Article #18hooking printer to 4315
From: Bill Trost
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:49
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:49
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I've hooked up my 4315 running UTek 4.0 to a cheapy little Radio Shack dot matrick printer (DMP105, if you care). When I try to print (using either the MDQS driver, or directly using "dd of=/dev/chc" or whatever the device is), I get an "I/O error". On the other hand, the printer manages to print out about two lines of text -- presumably, that's how much data sneaks into the printer buffer before UTek decides there's a problem. The printer checks out -- I hooked it to a PC and it worked fine. The cable seems to be fine. It was bought new, and I checked it with a voltmeter and all the lines seemed to be hooked up correctly. Therefore, it must be a problem with either the 4315's connector, or with the device driver's interpretation of what the printer is doing. Any suggestions on how to make this work? -- Bill Trost <trost@cse.ogi.edu> Discriminating Oregonians support the OCA.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tessi!eaglet!neon!qiclab!ogicse!newsserver.cse.ogi.edu!trost From: trost@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Bill Trost) Newsgroups: pdx.utek Subject: hooking printer to 4315 Message-ID: <TROST.93Jan26154942@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 23:49:47 GMT Article-I.D.: ogicse.TROST.93Jan26154942 Sender: news@ogicse.ogi.edu Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton, OR Lines: 16