I have a friend who has a problem which has only recently cropped up but
which has got both of us flummoxed. He's using a 486SX-25 with 8MB RAM, and
has plenty of capacity on his hard disk drive.
Under Win3.1, the printer prints as if the paper was less than half its
actual width, that is to say the typeface is correct except it is squashed
up in the left-hand side of the page. This problem occurs under Notepad,
Write and Word For Windows. The printer works correctly under DOS.
The PC also appears to have slowed down a lot. Its response time to a print
instruction is very long - two minutes is not unusual. One very interesting
thing I noticed was that whilst printing under Print Manager, Print Manager
believes the file size is far larger than actual life size. For example, a
short 1k note written in Notepad becomes a 63k monster!
We have checked and double-checked the settings for paper, printer etc. The
printer drivers have been loaded again. We just cannot understand it. Has
anyone out there come across this problem before, as it's really bugging us?
Any ideas or suggestions by e-mail will be most welcome.
Regards
Nick.
> Please excuse my posting this here, but I need help... If you know of a
> more suitable newsgroup for this plea, please let me know.
I hate to say this but, the BJC-240 is a piece of crap! Slow and
unreliable. This is the printer that Computer City always gives away
when they advertise a free printer with any system. Many times they
are refurbs. Terrible printers....
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Jim Dompier
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Perhaps your problem is the result of a similar situation.
BJ
"Nick Woolard" <nick.w...@virgin.net> wrote:
>Please excuse my posting this here, but I need help... If you know of a
>more suitable newsgroup for this plea, please let me know.
>
Please don't ask for responses by email unless also requesting a
public response. There are a lot of people out there that just might
like an answer to your problem as well. Now having said that and
read the answers here. If in your boat and if I didn't have a heck
of a lot of windows programs I couldn't reinstall quickly I'd delete
windows out and reinstall windows from scratch just to be sure those
driver files are really being loaded agiain. but that's just me I
like to be damn sure if stuck. good luck
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997 19:57:25 -0000, "Nick Woolard"
Failing that, see if there is a canon web site and see if there are any
other suggestions. Maybe a newer driver may fix the problem.
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