PCBUILD Digest - 26 Jul 2002 to 27 Jul 2002 (#2002-209)Hi,

Printer Epson FX-2180 was printing garbage even from pure DOS mode but was fine when self test. Tried everything, changing cables, settings etc Opened up and took out the BIOS chip from the interface board and shorted all pins. After that, the printer prints fine from DOS mode. But from Windows, it cannot print graphics including the printer test page -esp the Windows logo. When the graphics part comes, it prints a little jumps way down or prints garbage. It prints texts from Notepad alright. I have tested in different machines and OS (Win9x, Win NT, WIn2k). Driver is installed correct, Win2k even autodetects its installs the correct drivers.

I have tried by changing settings within the printer (like bi-directional, uni-directional, high speed draft on/off, I/F mode, IBM printer mode, Software mode, buffer enable/disable etc, in fact every available setting).

Any suggestion is appreciated.

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