Re: Printer Problem - won't print from appleworks 3.0

[SINCLAIRB@grasslands.cri.nz (Bruce Sinclair)]

In article <95016.093200KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> Ken Richardson <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 09:32:00 EST
>From: Ken Richardson <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu>
>Subject: Printer Problem - won't print from appleworks 3.0

>A friend of mine has a brother 1109 printer.  We have been unable to get it
>to print from appleworks at all.  To test the connection I went into
>basic and typed pr#1 and "this is a test" <return> and the text
>appeared on the printer as expected.  The text did appear on the
>screen too though which I did not expect.  I always thought once the
>pr#1 was sent, all text went to the printer and NOT the screen.
>She has a ROM1 GS with 1.25 Megs Ram, an Epson APL printer card in
>slot 1.
>The connection seems to be working since I was able to get the printer to work
>from basic.  So why would it not work in Appleworks?  I have tried th
>the brother printer, Epson printer, Heck even the Imagewriter.  None
>cause the printer to do anything at all.
>Any help would be appreciated. Ken

yep - the problem seems to be with the apl card :) I too have this problem and 
it seems to be that appleworks (happens with some other versions too as i 
remember) doesn't recognise the apl as being a printer card ! This is what i 
remember from some discussions with david empson. He was looking into a patch 
for this ... but you needed a disk sector editor - which i don't have :(  
Basically it was to persuade  appleworks not to look :). Easy solution ... buy 
a different card :)

Bruce