Epson Action Laser II - Manual (Page 57)

Connecting the Printer to Your Computer
Testing the parallel connection
To make sure you properly connected your computer to your
printer, follow these steps before you begin working with your
application software:
1. Turn on your computer; then turn on your printer.
2. Bring up a DOS prompt on your computer screen such as:
c:>
If you do not have a C drive, A:> or B:> may appear.
3. Type DIR and press
Enter.
The screen shows a directory listing of
the files in the designated drive.
4.
Press the
Print Screen
button on your keyboard once.
5.
Press
RESET
on your printer control panel. The printer prints
what is on your screen, as shown below.
C:\EPL>dir
Volume in drive C has no label
Directory of C:\EPL
11-20-90
11-20-90
PRNTWIN3 BAT 166 11-20-90
READWIN3 BAT 104 11-20-90
READWIN2 BAT 104 11-20-90
PRNTWIN2 BAT 166 11-20-90
READOS2 BAT 33 11-20-90
PRNTOS2 BAT 97 11-20-90
WIN2C TXT 372 11-20-90
WIN3B TXT 685 11-20-90
WIN3C TXT 642 11-20-90
OS2 TXT 667 11-20-90
WIN2A TXT 1058 11-20-90
WIN3A TXT 1079 11-20-90
WIN2B TXT 530 11-20-90
6:26p
6:26p
2:09p
2:07p
2:52p
2:53p
4:59p
5:00p
4:46p
2:04p
4:49p
4:58p
4:45p
4:47p
2:56p
15 File(s) 8093696 bytes free
C:\EPL>
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