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IBM 3812 Pageprinter Not Printing Correctly W
DocumentID: 636202
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:04:08 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is using a System 38 as a print server with an IBM 3812 Pageprinter connected to it with a Twinax cable. Text from WordPerfect is not printing correctly to the printer. The customer can use the CONVERT.EXE program to convert his documents to Final Form Text and then copy it to the printer. Solutions: The IBM 3812 and 3816 printers are commonly used as AS/400 and System 38 virtual printers. In order to print effectively from WordPerfect through one of these systems, one must format print output as an SCS data stream. The driver provided by WordPerfect uses an ASCII data stream. There is an IBM 381x Printer in SCS Mode printer definition available on the User Contributed printer disk that is written in Epsodic to produce an SCS data stream and can be used for these configurations. There is a file called README.SCS that is installed in the printer directory when this definition is installed. Please refer to that file for further information.
NOTE:      Customers must be sure that their System 38 is set to SCS mode or this driver will not work.

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