From: sheley@convex.com (John "Dumptruck" Sheley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Help! printer output is hosed
Summary: Windows printing to a Star NX-2410 is slightly hosed
Keywords: windows 3.1 star nx-2410 flurble
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:39:38 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


  The situation is that when either W4W and windows 3.1 write prints to my
Star NX-2410 (24 pin dot matrix), some parts of the document will not print
correctly.  The exact symptom is that for some part of the print head pass,
all of the printed dots get rotated.  For example, if the printer should be
printing the letter 'X' as

                             top of print head pass
__________________________________________________________________________
                        ....                   ....
                          ....               ....
                            ....           ....
                              ....       ....
                                ....   ....
                                  .......
                                  .......
                                ....   ....
                              ....       ....
                            ....           ....
                          ....               ....
                        ....                   ....



__________________________________________________________________________
                           bottom of print head pass


what will actually get printed is

                             top of print head pass
__________________________________________________________________________
                              ....       ....
                            ....           ....
                          ....               ....
                        ....                   ....



                        ....                   ....
                          ....               ....
                            ....           ....
                              ....       ....
                                ....   ....
                                  .......
                                  .......
                                ....   ....
__________________________________________________________________________
                           bottom of print head pass


  I believe that it isn't the printer, since the shifted dots are clearly
readable as parts of what should be printed, just shifted vertically.  There
doesn't seem to be any graphics garbage, either.  It is also somewhat random;
sometimes there will be no shifts at all, but mostly the shifts happen in
random places in the document.  The number of shifts seems to vary randomly,
too.

  My first suspicion was the printer driver (since all of the data was there,
just some of it was shifted vertically).  I stopped using the windows 3.1
epson24.drv (LQ-800, which the printer manual said it was compatible with),
and tried using the starm24.drv I found on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  No luck.
I then tried replacing dmcolor.dll and unidrv.* which I also found at cica.
Still no luck.

  So right now, I am stuck.  Is it my printer, my printer driver, windows, or
me that is confused?  Here's my system setup:

CPU:   25Mhz 386sx.  387 installed.  4M of RAM  AMI BIOS (forget the date).
Cards: Trident tvga w/1M.  Windows is running under the 640x480x256 tvga driver
       Some nameless multi-card w/ 2 serial ports (1 for the logitech mouse),
         1 parallel port (which goes to the printer), and 1 game port.
SW:    Windows 3.1, Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0, W4W 2.0.  Windows is
         running in standard mode (mainly because I'm setting up my EMS
	 in config.sys as 'DEVICE = c:\windows\emm386.exe ram 3072').  I'm
	 not using print manager, but I did try it once and the output still
	 got shifted.

  About the only thing I don't think I've tried is rearranging the emm386
to use less EMS and run windows in 386 enhanced.

Ay help would be appreciated.  Thx, JTS
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