Re: Printing problems

[The Mad Scribbler <madscribbler@charter.net>]

On 03 Jul 2002 20:03:14 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

Just ran the boot diagnostics - rebooting while holding down both
apple keys - and the printer kicked in a couple of times and printed
some gibberish.  Looks like the connection, cable and ports are OK.
Any other ideas?


>The Mad Scribbler asked:
>
>>I have an Apple //c that I purchased recently at a yard sale, it
>>included an ImageWriter // printer.  The problem is, I hooked the
>>printer up last evening (the Apple works fine) and tried to print a
>>listing of an old Applesoft program of mine.  When I did a PR#1 to
>>send output to the printer, the whole system locked up forcing me to
>>do a three-finger salute.  Any ideas what I can do to remedy the
>>problem?
>
>That behavior is consistent with a bad connection to the printer,
>a not-ready printer, or a blown printer or //c serial port.  Some
>additional experimentation is called for.
>
>Do you have another serial printer?  Another cable?  Have you
>tried re-plugging everything?  Is there paper in the printer (since
>it won't be ready without paper)?  Do the printer lights say that
>it's online?  Are the DIP switches in the printer set for the right
>baud rate?  Do you have an RS-232 "snoop" box with lights that
>show port activity--if so, soes it show any when you try to print?
>
>-michael
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