Microsoft KB Archive/62467

Works 2.00: Support for the Kodak Diconix 150

PSS ID Number: Q62467 Article last modified on 06-26-1998

2.00

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Support for the Kodak Diconix 150 printer is available on Supplemental Printer Kit #1 with a file creation date of 3/25/91 or later. Supplemental Printer Kits may be ordered from Microsoft End User Sales and Service at (800) 426-9400.

The following is a description of the printer drivers.

Diconix 150 Printer Drivers
Epson mode on the Kodak Diconix 150 (DIP switch 6 down, default) provides italic characters, and IBM mode (DIP switch 6 up) provides extended character support, including line draw characters. The drivers have some other differences as described below.

Limitations of the Printer Drivers
The Diconix 150 cannot use a 10-pitch (12-point) font with Works. Instead, it uses a 12-pitch (10-point) Elite font to emulate the 10-pitch font.

The paper width must be set at 8.5 inches; however, the printer has a maximum print width of 7.08 inches, so setting the left and right margins to 0 inches automatically fixes them at almost .75 inches each.

All the drivers use a 12-pitch font but call it a 10-pitch font (12 point). This causes any horizontal measurements to be reduced by that ratio, 5/6. For example, setting a tab stop at 3 inches in the application will actually create a column at 2.5 inches from the left margin on the paper, but it will still be 30 characters from the left margin (at 12 point).

Works 2.00
From the Print menu, choose Printer Setup. The Printer Setup menu contains two models of the Diconix 150: serial and parallel. When using justified paragraph formats or boxes, use at least .2-inch left and right margins (or paragraph indents). To provide compatibility with other documents, the Epson driver is exactly the same as the Epson driver in Works 1.x.

The IBM driver supports not only graphic boxes, but charts as well. It prints at 8 lines per inch as the default, but if line spacing (in Format Paragraph) is set to auto, the 12-point font will print 6 lines per inch. The page length must be set to 14.667 inches. When importing charts, make sure the graphic width (or frame width) and text position from chart add up to an even .1 inches. If not, the box may be printed with a broken vertical line due to rounding error. \softlibproj

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