Microsoft KB Archive/48673

IBM Personal Pageprinter Prints PostScript Code

PSS ID Number: Q48673 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00 5.00 5.50 6.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

When using an IBM Personal Pageprinter Model 4216-020 (Model I) with the IBM Personal Pageprinter software version 1.3.1, you must have LPT1: selected in the Print Options “setup:” field in Word 5.00 or the Print, Printer Setup, Connect to: in Works 2.00; and LPT3: selected in Word 4.00 and Works 1.05. The following settings must be set with the IBM utility PPCTL.EXE before starting Word:

In Word 5.50 choose LPT1: in File, Printer Setup, Connect To:

Emulator and Printing Modes
Emulator=PCL (versus ProprinterXL)

Standard Interface=PostScript (versus ASCII)

Mode thru EPT: = PostScript (Word 4.00 / Works 1.05)

Mode thru EPT: = PostScript or Automatic (Word 5.00 / Works 2.00)

If these settings are not made, the printer may print pages of PostScript code instead of the Word document.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The printer driver to be used with this model of the Personal Pageprinter is IBMLASER.PRD for portrait and IBMLASRL.PRD for landscape in Word 4.00 and IBMLASER.PRD and IBM4216.PRD for both orientations in Word 5.00. IBMLASER.PRD will access only the internal fonts of the IBM Personal Pageprinter. IBM4216.PRD will access the fonts that are downloaded by the Personal Pageprinter software. IBM4216.PRD is available on the Supplemental Printers Disk for Word version 5.00.

For more information on the PPCTL utility, please refer to the “IBM Personal Pageprinter Adapter Program, User Reference” manual.

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