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Re: HP 500

In <1170378122.341567.253010@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> golfrock 
wrote:
> I got an HP 500 and hooked it to the Apple Parallel card.  The
> Harmonie software is installed.  I choose the HP 500C on Apple
> Parallel for the DC printer.
> 
> I choose to print a page and it says Printing but nothing happens.
> 
> I shouldn't have to mess with dip switches.  Both the card and the
> printer are in their default configurations.
> 
> I did put the parallel in slot 1 and set that to Your Card.
> 
> My machine is a ROM 3 with RAM Fast SCSI, 4MB RAM, and ZipGS.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert

Have you tried just printing some text from BASIC? At a BASIC prompt 
type PR#1, and then anything you type should be sent to the printer. It 
will probably buffer it until the page is full, so you'll need to either 
force a page feed or send enough to fill the page up.

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