Printing with LPT Port

[diarmuidrobson]

Hey,

Been printing using the firewire port but its pot luck at times and have decided to us the lpt port as more reliable.

Problem is the printer will do about 3 head passes and stop at capping station every time. This has a serious damper on the production.

Any ideas why it would be doing this or is normal when printing with lpt.

Port settings are

Transmission Buffer 8192

Mode. ecp

 

[J Hill Designs]

because data is sent SLOWLY via LPT

 

[SightLine]

Pretty much normal. A parallel port cannot transfer data fast enough to keep a wide format printer moving non-stop.

 

[OldPaint]

turn off your screen saver and any power saving settings............these will always cause problems when printing..............