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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: Epson LQ printer - Can it be done?
Message-ID: <1993Sep11.124630.22284@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References: <TONY.93Sep9182513@marge.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 12:46:30 GMT
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In article <TONY.93Sep9182513@marge.apana.org.au>, tony@marge.apana.org.au (Tony Clark) writes:
|> Hi,
|>
|> I have an Epson LQ-500 printer that I would like to use with the lpa driver.
|> It shows all the symptoms that I've seen discussed before: No port detected
|> unless the printer is unplugged (whether the printer is on or off), but I've
|> never seen a solution to the problem posted.
|>
|> Is it actually possible to use this printer?
|>
|> Thanks,
|>
|> Tony
|>
I had run an LQ850 with the lpa driver for quite a long time without any
problem, in particular without seen messages that the port is not
detected. This was with a multi I/O card, a printer port on a HGC card might
make a difference. My recommendation is to verify that your
printer cable has *all* line connected. There are several cheap cables
available that tie status lines to ground or leave them open, because
stupid DOS does not use all of them ("But it works with DOS" - "Then
use your computer for this toy OS only!").
Get a correct Centronics cable, and try again.
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