Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: >> Next QPC2 version will probably be able to run it. > The test version of QPC2 demonstrated at the recent Quanta meeting in > Manchester certainly does run GWASS. True, that worked fine from the get go. But still I've spend the last few days almost full-time getting everythin

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Some printer manuals do say that when you first set up an inkjet, it > is "charged" with ink and that is why the cartridges supplied with the > printerseem to last a lot less than new cartridges you install if you > have to soak up this sponge the first time! Actually if tha

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread John Gilpin
- Original Message - From: "Robert Newson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] printer problem > hitchies wrote: > >> Robert said - >> >> ...any suggestions how to clear (trying propan-2-ol seems to have had >> lit

Re: [ql-users] Future of the QL?

2006-04-12 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> True, and although I will no doubt go down the emulation route at >> some >> point, for me, personally at least, the original hardware still has >> its >> place and so the two compliment each other - different types of fun, >> you >> could say. Actually, it has been fun

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Robert Newson
Dilwyn Jones wrote: >>However, I've been unable to use it as it was put away with a black >>cartridge open in it. Once I had downloaded the correct drivers for >>it, I >>eventually got the CMY jets working, but the black has steadfastly >>refused >>to work - I eventually got it to product a sin

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Robert Newson
hitchies wrote: > Robert said - > > ...any suggestions how to clear (trying propan-2-ol seems to have had > little effect (other than to get one dot working for minimal time), though > it does "collect" the other colours quite well - I dismantled the "head" > unit to get direct access to the jets

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread hitchies
Robert said - ...any suggestions how to clear (trying propan-2-ol seems to have had little effect (other than to get one dot working for minimal time), though it does "collect" the other colours quite well - I dismantled the "head" unit to get direct access to the jets...the C460 has a ... ---

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn > Jones > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>Anyone got any suggestions or experience of this? > In my experience this is usually the end of the printer. It is > probably > the sensor on the rod that the print head moves on but is too > expensive > to repair You a

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> However, I've been unable to use it as it was put away with a black > cartridge open in it. Once I had downloaded the correct drivers for > it, I > eventually got the CMY jets working, but the black has steadfastly > refused > to work - I eventually got it to product a single (dot) line for >

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Dilwyn Jones
>> I have my son's Epson Stylus C64 set up here at the moment and it >> has >> developed a problem - both indicators are blinking which indicates >> (according to manual) print head unable to return to home position, >> but it seems to be parked in the home position! >> > Hmm, Dilwyn + Hardware =

Re: [ql-users] Future of the QL?

2006-04-12 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> True, and although I will no doubt go down the emulation route at > some > point, for me, personally at least, the original hardware still has > its > place and so the two compliment each other - different types of fun, > you > could say. Actually, it has been fun digging out my old machines t

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Dilwyn Jones
>>Try Viking Direct for your printer cartridges. They do a full range >>of >>compatible units and the Epson stylus 880 Colour is on their list. >>Go to >>www.viking-direct.co.uk or ring free on 080042 > > I can vouch for Viking as being a useful and good supplier of > printer > cartridges. T

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Gilpin ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >>Hi Dilwyn, >> >>Try Viking Direct for your printer cartridges. They do a full range of >>compatible units and the Epson stylus 880 Colour is on th

Re: [ql-users] Future of the QL?

2006-04-12 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Chagouri-Brindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Malcolm Cadman wrote: >> >> >> I think that we have all been there, and "got the T-shirt" ... :-) >> >> If you are interested in computers / computing, then you tend to >> accumulate lots of them over the years. >

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Robert Newson
Norman Dunbar wrote: > Dilwyn Jones wrote: > >>Wonder if anyone knows anything about this printer problem. >> >>I have my son's Epson Stylus C64 set up here at the moment and it has >>developed a problem - both indicators are blinking which indicates >>(according to manual) print head unable to

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Wonder if anyone knows anything about this printer problem. > > I have my son's Epson Stylus C64 set up here at the moment and it has > developed a problem - both indicators are blinking which indicates > (according to manual) print head unable to return to home position, >

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-12 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Roy wood wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >>> It has been that way for many years I think. I am totally QL hardware >>> based, and I have been doing pretty well no bu

Re: [ql-users] Future of the QL?

2006-04-12 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
Malcolm Cadman wrote: > > > I think that we have all been there, and "got the T-shirt" ... :-) > > If you are interested in computers / computing, then you tend to > accumulate lots of them over the years. > Very true . . . sometimes I think I have too many and but then again, I couldn't con

Re: [ql-users] Future of the QL?

2006-04-12 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Chagouri-Brindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >> >>> Rather sad really, although I'm an emulator man myself as my main >>> system is a PC with QPC2, but I still have and still us

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Gilpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hi Dilwyn, > >Try Viking Direct for your printer cartridges. They do a full range of >compatible units and the Epson stylus 880 Colour is on their list. Go to >www.viking-direct.co.uk or ring free on 080042 I can vouch f

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-12 Thread George Gwilt
On 11 Apr 2006, at 21:19, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > Derek Stewart wrote: >> If emulators are the way forward how do I run GWASS. > > Next QPC2 version will probably be able to run it. > > Marcel The test version of QPC2 demonstrated at the recent Quanta meeting in Manchester certainly does run GW

[ql-users] Future of the QL?

2006-04-12 Thread Rick Chagouri-Brindle
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > >> Rather sad really, although I'm an emulator man myself as my main >> system is a PC with QPC2, but I still have and still use an Aurora SGC >> system and a QL+Gold Card. It would be really sad if this sort of >

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-12 Thread Tony Firshman
Roy wood wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> It has been that way for many years I think. I am totally QL hardware >> based, and I have been doing pretty well no business for years now. > But then again you have no new products so .. Yes