Re: DeskJet 500 Problems

[rmacdon@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Ross MacDonald)]

In article <3ds8be$q4i@scipio.cyberstore.ca>,
John Blaby <jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 1994 19:33:04 GMT, Ross MacDonald (rmacdon@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
>   > In article <3dpg6e$pga@scipio.cyberstore.ca>,
>   > John Blaby <jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca> wrote:
>   > > 
>   > > The problem:
>   > > 	It prints the first page (from EGOed) just fine. Subsequent
>   > > pages are all screwed up. If I print one page at a time, all is well.
> 
>   > The problem is in the Harmonie driver and one I have experienced.  Switch 
>   > to Independance - it works fine with all my applications.
> 
> I take it that you never did solve the problem with Harmonie then?

No, I did not solve the problem because there is no solution.  The 
Harmonie driver will only print the second and subsequent pages correctly 
(while in 300 dpi mode) if the program printed from treats each page as 
if it were page one of a new document.  AppleWorks GS is such a program.

Programs which treat the second and subsequent pages correctly eg. 
GraphicWriter III, will not get the required result.  The reason for this 
is that the Harmonie driver does not set the printer correctly for 
subsequent pages. David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) did considerable 
work to discover the cause of the problem and I wrote to the publisers of 
Harmonie and sent files which showed both the input to the driver and the 
output from it to the printer.  These demonstrated the problem 
precisely.  The correspondence was not acknowledged.

David might post a follow up to this posting.

> Further to my problem, I have the latest versions of Harmonie and
> Pointless. The subsequent pages are printed in a large, ungainly font
> rather than the 'teeny' font described in the manual.

You have described the problem precisely.

Regards - Ross

rmacdon@actrix.gen.nz