[cups.general] Fwd: very strange dot-matrix printer problem: randomly wrong print result (ghostscript-esc p2)

[Ambrose Li]

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li at gmail.com>
Date: 13-Sep-2006 12:29
Subject: Re: [cups.general] very strange dot-matrix printer problem:
randomly wrong print result (ghostscript-esc p2)
To: "Mirror of cups.general Newsgroup" <cups at easysw.com>
Cc: wangpenghui at realss.com


On 13/09/06, <zhangweiwu at realss.com> wrote:
> I very much like to try it! Actually, most everything I print is plain
> text (though not ASCII, it's Chinese. The printer has embed Chinese
> fonts too, only need to know how to enable it), I use graphic mode only
> because I need to print spreadsheets with table columns and table lines.
> If there is a good application that can convert an openoffice
> spreadsheet into text table (with data correctly aligned of course) then
> I'll like it.

Since you are printing Chinese, you can ignore the suggestion to print
in text mode, because Chinese can only be prined in "graphics mode".

One additional thing you might want to check is the cables. This is
not very likely, but it is possible that a bad cable or a loose
connection can cause some data to randomly drop out, causing the
problem you describe. I have seen this before.
--
cheers,
-ambrose


-- 
cheers,
-ambrose