On 30 Nov 99, at 8:22, Gilberto Tillan Ochoa wrote:

> I would like to know if anybody can  help me, we have bought some
> computers, and in some of them we have problems with Microsoft Word
> and printing documents, these are computer with microprocessor AMD
> K6/200 MHz and motherboards SP97-V, on the other hand we have some
> computers with microprocessor Pentium MMX/200 MHz and the motherboard
> is P5A-B and in this cases we have no problems with printing.
> These problems are only in case we use Dot matrix printer, and
> exactly CITIZEN 200GX.
> We obtain in the hard report some characters like "J" at the end of
> the printing line, and some lines overwrite others.

  Since the line-feed code which advances the paper is Ctrl-J, the
symptoms you describe sound like a particular bit -- the second most
significant -- is sometimes seen as 1 when it should be 0.  When I've
seen problems like this before, the printer *cable* has generally
been the culprit.  [Cheap/defective printer cables can produce plenty
of really strange results!]

David G

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