Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.1194
Posted: Tue Nov 12 14:27:47 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Nov-85 04:17:33 EST
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
Lines: 23
Keywords: printer


I've got a problem that I hope someone out there can help with.

I just got my amiga and have been trying to set it up
with my Gemini-15 (Star Micronics) printer.
The printer is Epson "compatible" (for the most part).
I've used preference to set up the printer as Epson.
My trouble is that when I use notepad to print out a 
note (as graphics) every other line is blank.

Can somebody help me in one or more of the following ways:
1) Tell me I'm a fool because your Gemini works in the
   above configuration. (give DIP switch settings)
2) Post a Patch program to fix the printer specification.
3) Describe the format of the printer specification file.

I bought the system as a plain old consumer, so I don't
have extensive documentation or a c compiler.
I would appreciate any help or suggestions.

				Mark Anderson
				sdcsvax!manderso (uucp)
				manderso@ucsd    (arpa)

Article-I.D.: amiga.250
Posted: Thu Nov 14 13:06:31 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 08:48:26 EST
References: <1194@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
Lines: 37
Keywords: printer

In article <1194@sdcsvax.UUCP> manderso@sdcsvax.UUCP (Mark Anderson) writes:

 > I just got my amiga and have been trying to set it up
 > with my Gemini-15 (Star Micronics) printer....
 > ...My trouble is that when I use notepad to print out a 
 > note (as graphics) every other line is blank.

I don't know if this will help but here goes....

One of our customers reported the leaving pin 14 connected causes extra
linefeeds on (?epsons, I think).

And another:
	If you want to connect a printer to the Amiga parallel 
	port (25 pin female) and have an IBM PC parallel cable
	to Centronics (36 pin) cable, make the following 25 pin
	female to female cable:

		Amiga side		IBM Cable side
		-------------		--------------
		1-13			1-13
		14-16	(cut)
		17-22			17-22
		23	(cut)
		24			24
		25	connect over to 16

	Now arrange as follows:

	  +---+
	  |   |
	  +---+
	+-------+				    +---------+
	| Amiga |> >==new cable==< <==IBM cable==[ [| Printer |
	+-------+				    +---------+

Good Luck!