Spectre GCR Manual Manuals - Atari Documentation Archive

Printers and Spectre
Printer Desk Accessory (the name will vary depending on your
System/Finder version number). A list of available drivers will appear;
click on the proper driver. For instance, to use an MX-80 driver, click
on "MX-80", then Quit. The Chooser dialogue will disappear. Next,
you'll need to use Page Setup under the rile menu to make sure
your program knows the MX-80's page size; if you forget Page
Setup, you'll get screwy printouts (typically, too tall or too small).
Finally, choose Print, select the options you want, and away you go.
You should know right up front that you'll be experimenting for
awhile to find out the differences between the "quality" of print you
can select (which really is how many passes the printer makes per line)
vs. speed of printout, different printer drivers, how tall the printed
page is, and so forth.
To get the best results with a printer, you need the right size fonts.
Each kind of printer seems to require different proportioned fonts. For
example, if you have a 9-pin printer, Epson MX, and your document is
in 12 point, you will also need 24 point in your System to get the best
results.
If you have a serial printer, you can count on having to set some
switches inside it; I've always had to. This isn't much fun; get out your
serial printer's manual, and start experimenting. You're going to want
8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit; the rest is up to you.
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Several hints are in order, to save you time and trouble.
• Epstart is unable to print a "catalog listing" (a listing of the
files on the disk) more than one page long. Two pages or more
equals a crash.
• Epstart doesn't seem to work with HyperCard. We're talking
with Softstyle about this; obviously an update is needed.
We've been told that PrintWorks will do the job, but we
haven't tested it ourselves.
• Epstart has some other known kinks; it's best to be in touch
with our online support group on this, as someone else is sure
to run into the same problem you're having, and can tell you
about it.