Re: Weirdness when printing from a 3489 to a LaserJet

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you using "local emulation" or HPT ???

Local = 3489 does the conversion.
HPT = The 400 does the conversion.

That makes a large difference in appearance.

Funky looking data can also be caused by a
bad cable from printer to terminal.


James H H Lampert wrote:

> I was wondering.
>
> I have an old HP LJ4P printer hooked up to my 3489. Most 
> of the time, printing works fine, but every once in a 
> while, something prints weird: large blocks of space 
> disappear. Most recently, this happened when I printed a 
> member list from the PDM (using the print key). The spool 
> file was a nice, neat table in WRKSPLF, but when I sent it 
> to the printer, the lines looked rather like train wrecks: 
> all the white space (other than the spaces within the text 
> column) had been squeezed out.
>
> Can anybody explain why this would happen, and how to fix 
> it?
>
> --
> JHHL