According to Brett Lymn:
>
>My guess would be flow control.  You should be using hardware flow
>control to the printer.  I don't know if HP changed their policy on
>this but when I was playing with a HP PaintJet they were using the DTR
>line to do flow control - I made up a cable that wired the DTR to the
>CTS on the computer side.
>

Except that this was already covered in a message later on in my mail
box - I hate that :-/

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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