Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbcad!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!rzsin.sin.chunet!maden
From: maden@rzsin.sin.chunet (David Maden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NL-10 Printer loses characters at End-of-Page
Message-ID: <203:maden@rzsin.sin.chunet>
Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 04:33:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: rzsin.203:maden
Posted: Tue Jul  7 04:33:30 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 01:45:34 EDT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Distribution: world
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 25

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote ...

> I have a Star NL-10 printer connected to my 1040STf via the printer port. The
> plug-in unit on the Star-10 is a so-called Parallel Interface-Steckmodul. My
> problem is that, when I manually feed in single sheets of paper to the printer
> to get a print-out of a file from the desk-top (i.e. double-click the file and
> then select the "print file" option), I lose characters (the number that get
> lost appears random but is usually about 16) when changing sheets of paper.
> Etc ....

Thanks to help from Holger Brieger in Berlin, I have been able to fix the
fault. The problem is the Version of the EPROM in the NL10 Plug-in Cartridge.
You can see the version number by invoking the printer's self-test feature.
Mine was P1.4 and is now P1.5 and works much better. On changing sheets of
paper, though, I now have to press the on-line button as well which was not the
case before (but I guess this could be a feature rather than a bug since you
then have a chance to check that the paper is straight!!). 

Since I have seen this same fault on many printers in the shops in this part
of Switzerland, there may be other Atari users out there in need of the same
upgrade.

                David Maden,
maden@czheth5a.bitnet                   Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research,
                                        CH-5234 Villigen