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Diablo 630 Problem With Bold And Stacking Pri
DocumentID: 646996
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:18 PM

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

Problem

Symptoms: The customer cannot print in bold. Going into PTR and changing to Multiple overstrike didn't help. Also, if the customer sends long print jobs to the printer and they stack up, his computer will lock. Printing locally without the network produces the same problem. If he sends the same jobs to a different network printer everything is fine. Solutions: There are really two different problems here. Both answers are here:

(1) Bold print: the WP driver uses the Auto Bold method to produce bold print, because it is faster and looks nicer. However, there are some older Diablo 630's out there that do not support the Auto Bold commands. This is probably what the customer has. On these older printers, customers have always been successful in changing the Bold method to Multiple Pass Overstrike:
      1.      Type PTR at a DOS prompt
      2.      Press Shift-F10 to retrieve the .PRS file or .ALL file
      3.      Highlight the printer, and press Enter
      4.      Highlight Attribute Methods, and press Enter
      5.      Highlight Bold, and press Enter
      6.      Highlight Multiple Pass Overstrike, press the asterisk (*), and press Enter
      7.      Set the number of passes to 3 and both offsets to 3
      8.      Exit and Save (if the .ALL file was used, then update the printer-- Shift-F7, S, 7)
If this does not work, the problem is not with WP.

(2) Stacking up jobs in the queue: WPCorp found that the Diablo printer will observe a printer reset command even when there is text from a previous print job still in the printer's buffer. To work around it:
      1.      Type PTR at a DOS prompt
      2.      Press Shift-F10 to retrieve the .PRS file or .ALL file
      3.      Highlight the printer, and press Enter
      4.      Highlight Initialize and Reset, and press Enter
      5.      Highlight Initialize at Start of Print Job, and press Enter
      6.      Remove [27,13,80]
      7.      Exit and Save (if the .ALL file was used, then update the printer-- Shift-F7, S, 7)
This should keep the print jobs going when they stack up in the queue. If this does not work for him, it is a limitation of the printer, not of WP.

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