Re: Printing XyWrite

["John H. Kessel" kessel.1@xxxxxxxx]

At 12:49 PM 9/24/2006, you wrote:

Friends,


Have I been misinng something in this discussion of printing to a
USB

printer? Mr. Holmgren's TYP, utilizing POSTGHST.PRN, or a

printer-specific driver, works flawlessly, and is fully documented
in

the XYWWWEB materials, with many posts in XYSEARCH as well.


Fred Weiner


Fred:


I don't think you're missing anything, unless you thought I was
claiming

that someone should use the procedure I outlined. I concluded
my

posting on September 21 by saying:


"Comments by others indicated that this is not the only, and perhaps
not the

best, way to print XyWrite. But it does work."

 

Robert Holmgren, replying to an earlier posting about a month and a
half

ago, commented:


"Also, FYI, there *are* ways to get a Postscript printer like the HP
LJ1300 to

work with a USB cable under XyWrite, but I imagine that a parallel cable
is

simpler, since you have that option."


All I was saying was that the procedure had worked for me, and it might
work

for others who were having difficulties with HP Laserjets.


                                                         
 John





On 9/24/06, John H. Kessel
 wrote:

At 12:39 PM 9/23/2006, you
wrote:

>Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>>I'm on my fourth USB printer now and I've had nothing but trouble
with

>>all of them

>>(although I've never had problems with any other type of USB
gadget).

>>I don't know what it is about them but they regularly loose the
ability

>>to communicate

>>with the computer, and have to be "rebooted'. They always
re-connect,

>>but it's annoying.

>Really? That's surprising. I have an Epson here, and have used three
HP

>deskjets at various times on various PCs at the office: all USB,
no

>connection problems


My experience was that the HP Laserjet printed XyWrite fine as long as
I

was using a WIn98 machine, but as soon as I switched to XP Pro I

experienced numerous problems.

                                                                                        
John


>--well, one has an occasional problem, but that's definitely in
the

>WordPerfect setup; nothing to do with USB as such. Have you
tried?

>1. Changing USB ports

>2. Changing USB cables

>3. Checking the USB and printer properties in Control Panel

>

>Now Multifunctions, as opposed to printers pure and simple, are
another

>story. I had a Brother MFC, and it drove me bonkers. Used to corrupt
its

>drivers, and one had to uninstall the whole megillah (which
involved

>editing the Windows Registry, since uninstall left hundreds of
Registry

>entries), then reinstall. Did it three times, then said, "This
is

>idiotic"; kept it as a standalone fax & copier and got
myself a real printer.

>

>

>--

>Patricia M. Godfrey

>PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx

>


John H. Kessel

Ohio State University

kessel.1@xxxxxxxx






John H. Kessel

Ohio State University

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