Re: Deskjet, Pointless, and Harmony problems

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3kkq9q$fu5@flood.xnet.com>,
Chris Johnston <wakemich@flood.xnet.com> wrote:
> 
> When I print a document more than one page, it resets to original 
> settings, and from the second page on the printing is screwed up or 
> unreadable.

This is a known bug in Harmonie.  I told Vitesse about it in late 1993.

The problem is that if you have the DIP switches on the printer set to
a different resolution from that at which you are printing, then only
the first page will come out correctly.

Harmonie explicitly sets the printer resolution before printing the
first page, but it just sends a reset command for subsequent pages,
which causes it to revert to the default resolution.

Harmonie doesn't realise that the resolution has changed, and
continues to print at the old resolution.

For example, if you have the printer DIP switches set to default to 75
dpi, then try to print at 300 dpi, the second and subsequent pages
will come out with everything four times larger than it is supposed to
be, in both dimensions.

Similarly, if you have the DIP switches set for 300 dpi, and try to
print at 75 dpi, then the second and subsequent pages will come out
four times too small in both dimensions.


There are three possible solutions:

1. Pester Vitesse to get this bug fixed.

2. Buy Independence (from Seven Hills).  It works fine.

3. Set your printer's DIP switches to the resolution you want to use,
and stick to that resolution for all printouts.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand