NewDeal Technical Support Document 272
Specific Printer Notes, Okidata
This document contains notes about using Okidata
printers with NewDeal software
Note: You must have NewDeal software to use NewDeal print drivers.
NewDeal print drivers will not work with other Windows, OS/2, or DOS programs.
Okidata 82-a
Okidata 180
Okidata 182
OkiJet 2010
Okidata 391 in standard mode
OkiLaser 400
OkiLaser 410e
Okimate 20
The Oki 82-a is not supported. The closest driver
is the OKI Microline 92, but you will be lucky if you can get
that driver to work in HIGH mode without the 82 dropping bytes,
and creating a mess on the page. There are no plans to support
this printer in graphics mode, but if you have to print out text,
you can use the Oki 92 driver in Text Only mode for character
only printing. Just remember to use only the URW Mono 12 point
font throughout your document.
The Okidata 180 printer, commonly used with the Commodore
64, can be used with the Star NX-10 driver.
The Okidata 182 comes in 3 flavors: Oki, IBM, and
TTY. TTY Stands for teletype, and our software may not work with
this version. Try either the Oki ML92 (ML93 for the Oki 183) or
the Oki 182 driver (which treats it like an IBM Proprinter II).
In version 2.x or newer, try the Text Only (Unformatted) driver.
The OKIJET 2010 will ONLY print from a DOS session
under Windows: it will not print from a native (non-windows) DOS
session. The only exception is that you can copy a print file,
created by the OKIJET 2010 Windows Driver, to the OKIJET 2010,
from a native DOS session.
It's been reported that the Okidata 391, when in
standard mode (i.e., not IBM or Epson), will work with the Okidata
ML 92 or ML 93 driver.
Here's how one person prints envelopes on a OkiLaser400
printer:
- Open a new NewWrite document, and under Page
Setup, set Page Size as #10 envelope (near the bottom of the list).
- Set margins all the way around down to .25 inches.
Leave orientation as Portrait.
- Hit ENTER about 6-8 times, down just past the
center of the page (envelope). You may now wish to set a tab stop
just left of center, or wherever you want to start the "to"
address. Save this new document as a template for future use.
- After you set up the envelope, you're ready to
print. The default paper size is U S Letter. Leave it there. Pull
the wings together on the OL400, and set the envelope in so that
the top is on your right side. That is, if you've put your return
address in the top left corner, that end would be fed in first.
Open the back for a straight paper path. Otherwise, it comes out
all croggled up. Then print away!
The OL 410e has not been tested and is not officially
supported. A customer reports that it works and that it works
with the PCL Download Font driver:
"Oki claims 12 scaleable fonts. It's really
three typefaces, each with the following styles: Plain, Italic,
Bold, and Bold Italic. It also has a bitmapped Line printer font
(about 6 pt, 17 cpi) and USPS POSTNET bar code. The URW fonts
correspond to the scaleable resident fonts of the 410e, as follows:
- URW Roman = CG Times
- URW Sans = Univers (R)
- URW Mono = Courier
"All these fonts scale to every point size (Oki
claims .25 pt to 999.75 pt), and use all styles, including underlining.
Using the Text Only option it prints quickly and cleanly."
The Okimate 20 shipped with a choice of Commodore interface
or IBM-compatible interface. The Okimate 20 with IBM interface has been
reported to work with the IBM Proprinter driver.