NewDeal Technical Support Document 272

Specific Printer Notes, Texas Instruments

This document contains notes about using Texas Instruments 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.

Texas Instruments 3000

QUESTION: In version 1.0 of the software, my printer works (in draft mode only), but in version 1.2 it does not. I have tried switch and emulation changes to no avail. I use a TI 3000 and a pass-through portable hard disk on the printer port.

ANSWER: It sounds like you did not reset your printer port (I assume it is LPT1). On pass-through interfaces, you must use the interrupt on the parallel port that uses DOS for the direction of the port information.

Version 1.0 had an interrupt level called POLL, which told the software to talk with DOS during the printer communications.

Version 1.2 has replaced the POLL interrupt with two new ones. These are, in order of which one to try first, BIOS and DOS. Run the Preferences application. Select the Computer button and then set the interrupt for LPT1 (if this is your printer port) to BIOS first and try it. If it doesn't work yet, select the DOS interrupt. This should fix your problem.

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Last Modified 16 Feb 1999