Re: DeskJet 500 Problems

[jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca (John Blaby)]

On Sun, 1 Jan 1995 08:57:12 GMT, Ross MacDonald (rmacdon@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:

  > 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.

Hmm...well, it seems to be working fine for me now. Since I changed
the printer's dips (as described in a previous post), things seem to
be fine (under the same conditions where the problem manifested
itself). I haven't had any opportunity to do any further printing yet.

  > 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.

I think the only problem is that the Harmonie manual has the dip
settings described incorrectly (at least for the dj500). Here's hoping
anyhow :)


John
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