Apple IIgs - Manual (Page 60)

Page 60 of 84 II gs
Printed: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PM
Change the application's line feed setting to OFF, or use the Control Panel Program to change
the line feed setting for the printer port, or turn off the
automatic line feed switch on the printer.
Lines are printing on top of each other.
No line feed instruction is being sent to the printer after the carriage return instruction.
Use the Control Panel Program to add a line feed after the carriage return for
the printer port or turn on the automatic line feed switch on the printer.
Your printer doesn't print. (You already checked to make sure the printer is
plugged into the computer and a power source.)
The Select button is off.
Turn on the Select button.
Your printer doesn't print, and the paper error light is on.
You're out of paper, or paper isn't feeding properly.
Reload the paper and try again.
Your printer doesn't print, and the power light is off.
You forgot to turn on the printer's power switch.
Turn on the printer power switch.
Your printer doesn't print, and it's the first time you've tried to print anything with that
particular application.
The computer is sending information to the printer in a form the printer can't
deal with. You're using either the wrong baud, the wrong number of data bits
or stop bits, or the wrong kind of parity.
Check the manual that came with your printer to see how your printer expects to receive data
from the computer, and then use that information to answer printer-specification questions in
the application. If your application doesn't
ask for your printer's specifications, use the information to reconfigure the
printer port by using the Control Panel Program.
You get a line of meaningless characters that bears no resemblance to your document.
You're using either the wrong baud, the wrong number of data bits or stop bits, the wrong kind
of parity, a loose cable, or the wrong cable.
First check the tightness of the cable because that's the easiest thing to adjust. If that's
not the problem, check the manual that came with your printer to see how your printer expects