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Diablo 620 (And Others) Printing Strange Plac
DocumentID: 647259
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:20 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The Diablo 620 printer prints fine for three or more pages and then begins to lose its place. It types a line over the top of a previous line then goes out into the left margin. Tabs after this begin to go into the center of the page. I tried the reposition code. It still did not work. This document will print fine using the Standard Printer driver. Solutions: This is already fixed and will be in the next interim release of WP.EXE (after 01/19/90). This problem occurs only on the 1/19/90 version of 5.1 and only on "HMI Only" printers with "Set Forward Printing" and Set Reverse Printing" bi-directional codes. It occurs when MORE THAN ONE SPACE (not including the SRt or HRt) occurs at the end of a line that is being printed backwards. (Lines printing forward are not affected by the extra spaces.) One work around is to search for and remove these spaces at the end of the lines. Another interim solution would be to go back to the 11/06/89 release of 5.1 until the next interim release is shipped. The only other solution would be to go into the .PRS file and remove the Set Forward and Set Reverse Printing codes (which would solve the problem by disabling the bi-directional printing, but customers may not appreciate that solution.) When the next interim release is shipped, send it to the customer because when this problem was fixed the code was also changed so that bi-directional printing will now work with PS where it never has before. Our PS daisy wheel customers would appreciate that. It still will not work on lines with bolding or underlining though.

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