J.M. It has been a while since I have done BIOS configuration, but I believe that you need to set the parallel printer to one of the ECP/EEP ports, the DMA stand for direct memory address and it is used to make sure that you do not have conflicts with other software that uses DMA access, it is kind of what the interrupts used to do for serial ports. If the setting does not work, you can try a different setting such as bi-directional; the Centronics protocol is old and it was originally designed for the old line printers (made by Centronics, of course) and it is not good adequate for the new generation of printers. I do not believe that you need to re-install the printer unless there is a new driver; there have been times when I bought a new printer and by the time I got to install it, the manufacturer already had an upgraded version on their web site. Good luck. Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln, Suite #14 Olathe, Kansas 66962-4578 Office (913)829-0888 Fax (913)649-2904 Cell (913)915-3137 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J.M. GRATIAS Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:54 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Printing RB45++ report on HP 3330mfp Javier : > I would add that you should be certain to have a bi-directional printer cable so the printer can send feedback to the OS (via the correct up to date driver) when the buffer is full and that Enhanced Parallel port is selected in the CMOS of the computer.... < I tryed 2 differents cables : - a cheap one supposed to be birectionnal (that's what was writen onto the box ...) - a BELKIN (expensive !) certified IEEE 1284 cable Same problem with both cables ..... I check CMOS config. It is set to Centronics TM. Others values avalaible are : Bidirectionnal Bidirectionnal EPP 1.4 Bidirectionnal EPP 1.9 ECP/EPP 1.9 DMA 1 ECP/EPP 1.9 DMA 3 Which one should I choose ? Do I have to uninstall/reinstall HP 3330 mfp printer after changing CMOS config ? Thanks for helping .... J.M. GRATIAS, Logimatique
