Microsoft KB Archive/27781

Support for the IBM Personal Pageprinter Model I

PSS ID Number: Q27781 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00 5.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

If you are using the IBM Personal Pageprinter 4216-020 with Word Version 4.00 to print in portrait mode, select IBMLASER.PRD in the Print Options “printer:” field. If you are printing in landscape mode, select IBMLASRL.PRD in the Print Options “printer:” field.

In Word Version 5.00, use IBMLASER.PRD for both portrait and landscape orientations. Select the orientation by setting the Format Division Margins “page length:” field to the correct paper size. IBM4216.PRD is available on the Supplemental Printer disks that provide increased font support for the printer’s downloadable fonts.

Please note that the newer IBM Personal Pageprinter 4216-030 (Model II) is a generic PostScript printer and is supported in Word 4.00 by POSTSCRP.PRD for portrait mode and POSTSCRL.PRD for landscape mode and in Word 5.00 by POSTSCRP.PRD for both orientations.

The IBM 4216 Personal Pageprinter is incorrectly referred to as the IBM Personal Laser Printer on Page 43 of the Version 4.00 “Printer Information for Microsoft Word” manual.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The Personal Pageprinter 4216-020 (not the 4216-030) requires that a special adapter card be installed in your computer, and a device driver in your CONFIG.SYS file. For further information on how to install the printer, please consult the printer manual that came with the IBM Personal Pageprinter.

The device driver for this printer is configured as an EPT port, as opposed to a standard parallel (LPT) or serial (COM) port. Word will not allow you to select EPT: in the Print Options “setup:” field; however, it will allow you to select LPT3:, which it will then send to the EPT: port. You cannot use Word with the IBM Personal Pageprinter on a system that has an actual LPT3: port as well as an EPT: port.

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