Re: Address labels from AW5

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Thu, 24 May 2001 02:49:03 GMT, Dennis Fenton <defenton@MBnet.MB.CA>
wrote:

>A friend of mine is trying to print several hundred address labels on an
>ImageWriter II with his IIGS. He is using Appleworks 5.0. He has done this
>successfully in the past but now has a problem.

You got to hate it when that happens.

>After about 16 correctly printed labels, the printer starts skipping
>lines, missing characters, overprinting lines, and generally going crazy.
>We tried my printer and the same thing happened.

Did you happen to try a different printer cable?  I seem to recall
this happening to me about 10 years ago and I believe I tracked it
down to a bent pin in one end of the cable.  I believe it was one of
the handshaking pins so when the printer told the computer to stop
sending data as its buffer was full, the computer never saw that
signal and just kept sending data overwriting the data in the buffer
creating unpredictable results.

>If anyone thinks they can help please e-mail Tim Evans directly at
>timevans@wpcusrgrp.org

E-mail sent as well.

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