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Re: HP 500

golfrock wrote:

Well, its been a little while.  I got a Grappler + and the exact same
things happen.

I tried the BASIC PR#1 and hit keys and enter many times to make a
page and nothing.

I select the Grappler Plus and HP 500C.har in the Direct Connect
printer Control Panel.  These come from the Harmonie install disk.

When I try to print, it says Processing Data, then Printing in
Progress.  It just sits there.

Slot 1 is Your Card where the Grappler+ is and the Apple Parallel
was.  Slot 2 is a Zip. (I turned it off and no change.)  Slots 3, 5, 6
are empty.  4 has a sound card.  7 has a RAM Fast SCSI.

The printer works just fine with my Compaq Portable Plus through Word
Perfect 5.1.


I'd be inclined to check your cable.  Perhaps the printer's ACK line
is not getting back to the parallel card.

Also, the DIP switch settings for the printer *and* the card should
be double-checked--though you've probably done that.

IIRC, the 500C is a "real" printer, meaning that you can print by
just sending ASCII characters to it--no driver required.  The fact
that that doesn't work really makes me suspect the cable or switches.

-michael

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