Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
    You may be shit out of luck, Art.  There's a long thread on PLINK
    flaming EA for such gross incompetence, especially since other products
    have had 1.3 drivers for nine months or more.
    
    As far as I've seen on PLINK, there's just no way top get it to
    work.
    
    Ed.

       Thanks Ed for the quick response.  I had a feeling this wasn't
       going to be a simple one.  If you happen to see the solution
       appear on PLINK, I would appreciate if you would keep me mind.
       
       Art
       

    I suggest you return it to where you purchased it, and ask them
    to refund your money.  They shouldn't be selling it if it doesn't
    work with WB1.3.
        John Sauter

       John, if I had paid full price for this, I certainly would return
       it!  I forget just what I paid, but it wasn't that much as I got
       it via an upgrade offer for registered owners of the original
       DeluxePrint.  Regardless, it was probably still too much!  As I
       use the package only once in a blue moon, and I am not artistic
       enough to do what it does using one of the paint programs, I guess
       I can live with running it off floppies - as much as I don't want
       to!
       
       Your point regarding it working with WB1.3 is well taken.  This is
       the type of thing that would confuse, and frustrate the average
       AMIGA user to no end, causing him/her to write/spread disparaging
       remarks, which unfortunately  - no matter how well worded and
       aimed - would reflect poorly on the AMIGA in general.
       
       Art
       

    Hi!  I just bought DeluxePrint II and it won't print properly on my
    printer.  I have an Amiga 500 (1 Mg + 40 Mg HD) with a Citizen, 24 pin
    color printer (GSX 140?).  The printer works fine with ProWrite V2.5.1
    and with DPaint II.
    
    The DeluxePrint Print Request asks for the horizontal size of my page
    and refuses everything except 1" and 2" (for these the image then
    prints fine; alas the size of a postage stamp).  Any other size will
    stop before printing to complain the size is invalid.
    
    Anyone else see anything similar to this?  I am using the EpsonQ
    driver.  I also and trying to get in touch with EA but their support
    hotline is rather cold (...ring...(28)...ring (29)...arrgh!).
    
    Help!,
    George
    

    Re: -.1

    I had similar problems with DeluxePrint II, using the EpsonX driver
    for my Panasonic 1091 - postage stamp size greeting cards and complaints
    if the drawing size was anything over 2 inches. I switched over to the 
    EpsonXOld driver and all is well. Don't know if there's a similar one
    for EpsonQ.
							-Dom
							

Well, I am waiting for Pacific time to allow a call to EA.  Does someone a 
little more intimate with Printers/Driver/et al. know the difference between
EpsonQ, EpsonX, and EpsonXOld?  I have been using EpsonQ and it is the driver
I was told to use for my printer (Citizen-GSX 140 w/ Color).  Can I use the
EpsonX or the EpsonXOld and not lose anything?  

George

    Re .7:
    
>   Does someone a  little more intimate with Printers/Driver/et al. know
>   the difference between EpsonQ, EpsonX, and EpsonXOld?
    
    I can't claim intimacy, but here's a smidge of information.
    
    EpsonQ is used for current Epson 24-pin models and non-Epson clones thereof.
    EpsonX is used for current Epson  9-pin models and non-Epson clones thereof.
    	(I have a Star SG-15 that I've set up in "IBM mode" and which
    	 works perfectly with this driver.)
    EpsonXOld is used for older Epson 9-pin models and non-Epson clones thereof.
    	(There are several graphic modes and other features missing from
    	 the older versions that this driver must compensate for using the
    	 features that are present.  The Star Gemini uses EpsonXOld.)

    To reply with the fix EA gave me:
    
    The density of the image for DeluxePrint is not capable of supporting
    a 24-pin printer except when the Printer's Density is set at either
    1 or 2.  With Density set that low, full width to 7-8" should work.
    I will test this tonight and come back with more if it doesn't go.
    
    George
    

    Re.
    
!   <<< Note 1953.9 by NITMOI::WITHERS "Another Hallmark Moment. -Al Bundy" >>>
!                        -< EA says density is too high >-
!
!    To reply with the fix EA gave me:
    
	is that EA Electronic Arts or Ed Acciardi? :-)
    

    That's EA - Electronic Arts.  I didn't think the problem was drastic
    enough to bother Ed with... :-)
    
    George