Re: Printing problems

[Robert Jensen <bob_jensen@jhuapl.edu>]

In article <1995Nov30.193806.20712@leeds.ac.uk> D R Jefferies,
csydrj@scs.leeds.ac.uk writes:
>I've been trying to connect a Panasonic KX-P1124 printer to an Apple 2e.
>
>The apple has a parallel card in slot 5. When I try to print using
>Apple Works nothing happens! I'm pretty sure the cable and card are
>OK and the printer definitely is - does anyone know if this printer
>is compatible with the Apple or of anything obvious I might be doing
>wrong. BTW I know absolutely *nothing* about Apples.

Two nights ago I went to print from AppleWorks and got nothing through
a printer that ran fine from the Davex shell. I checked everything and
finally found that ProDOS had mapped one of 5 hard disk partitions to
slot 1, drive 1. Somehow, this seemed to mask the printer in slot 1,
although I don't understand how. If I told ProDOS that I only had
4 partitions, these mapped into slots 7 and 5 and left 1 alone and
I got printer output.
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Bob Jensen
bob_jensen@jhuapl.edu