Re: Cannot Load Printer

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

Odd... I had a somewhat different experience.  I had a 15-year old
Panasonic 1091 connected to a Win98 box a couple of years ago, and
discovered that Windows thought this was a cut sheet printer. It'd
do a fair job of printing the first page of a document (after a
VERY long delay), and then stop, in the apparent belief that it had
done all I asked. Running XyWrite under ms-dos (I had a dual-boot
system), I had no such problem, of course.

Never did get Windows to operate with that printer. I've seen
Windows 98 work with other dot-matrix, tractor-feed printers,
so I know it can be done, but.... My suspicion is that Panasonic
kept the 1091 name alive, by pinning it on a more modern piece
of machinery -- that would explain why the driver files I downloaded
from their site never did me any good.


----Original Message Follows----
From: Paul Williams 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: XyWrite message server 
Subject: Re: Cannot Load Printer
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 08:00:24 +0200

I do get rather phased with discussions about printer drivers. My eyes glaze
over and I get a throbbing behind the left eye. So I never contribute to
such discussions because I know I shall show just how technologically
challenged I am.


But. I did not notice in this discussion whether you were using a XyWrite
Printer Driver or Windows Printer Driver. I know that I had problems which I
never tracked down but solved by using the Windows Printer Driver. Which
means the printer works but I cannot tinker with anything because each time
I go to Advanced/Preferences/Defaults and click on Printer it tells me to go
away because I am using a Windows Printer Driver...


Paul




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