Re: Cable

[omar <omar@natasha.org>]

 I've found several times that using a high quality printer cable can have a
big effect!!  I had an HP 820 that printed fine locally but when I shared it
over the network (peer to peer) and had people printing to it, it wouldn't
work
reliably.  It drove me nuts, I couldn't figure out why it would say "printer
offline" or "printer out of paper"!!  It would say this even when the local
computer could print fine without these errors.  Then I happened to get an
IEEE
12XX rated cable and replaced the generic no-name cable and guess what, all
those problems vanished!  It was like magic...and really surprised me . I
still
don't know why the local computer had no problem with the cheap cable, but
over
the network it did make a difference....I assumed the local computer was
passing along the printer data from the remote computer....but guess it works
differently.  I think it has something to do with the bi-directional
communication....the printer lets the computer know its offline or online,
and/or out of paper....and somehow that wasn't being passed fast enough or the
network print didn't try enough times to get that info, while the local
printing tried more times and so usually got the info correctly.
With a low quality cable, you may have to re-send data a few times before you
get it.



At 10:19 AM 2/1/00 -0800, you wrote:
>In the Epson 1520 User's Guide, under PC System Requirements, it specifies:
>
>"A shielded, twisted-pair parallel cable (6 to 10 feet long)...the cable
>must have a D-SUB, 25-pin, male connector for your computer and a 36-pin,
>Centronics compatible connector for the printer."
>
>Somewhere else I read that it should be "preferably 6 feet or less."
>
>It seems that it's very important to have the right cable.
>
>Question:
>
>1.Ê Where, preferable on-line, can one purchase the right cable?
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>note:Ê my local technicians don't take the cable seriously.Ê In my mind, it
>seems to be a crucial issue.Ê And what I have is, I suspect, a generic
>cable.
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