PS is undoubtedly "proportional spacing", as opposed to 10 or 12 char/inch. I don't think you're going to squeeze PostScript out of a daisywheel printer, no matter how new it is! Dave LordTyran wrote:

I figured it couldn't be postscript.. I couldn't think of anything else that it could stand for. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's you isn't it? THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL!" "In the flesh, on the phone and in your account..." -- BOFH #3 On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:

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IIRC, there is a spring loaded retainer that holds the wheel in place. The retainer fits in a slot in the wheel and keeps it properly aligned. It should only fit one way so, the problem might be somewhere else. If you're using a serial connection, check the speed, parity, and handshaking settings on the printer and in your software. I don't recall how that printer senses the "Index"" on the wheel. On some of them, there is a missing "finger" on the wheel and a detector to sense the wheel position. If the wheel has more than one missing finger or the detector isn't working, you could get gibberish. As for the ribbons: Until a couple of years ago, Office Depot kept them in their regular inventory. I believe the same ribbon is used in some popular Diablo printers so, they may still have them. The Xreference in the store may not list that particular prineter so take an old ribbon with you to the store. If it looks close, it's the right one! Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>

Arfon Gryffydd wrote: For Daisy Wheel printers, for typewriters, even for dot-matrix printers, there are cloth ribbons and plastic carbon/film ribbons. The film ribbons are one-shots. Period. The film goes from one spool to the other. They can't be rewound and if you did the coverage would be spotty. They're the cheap ones that Radio Shack sold in three-packs for the Daisy Wheels. The cloth ribbons are continuous loops like most dot-matrix ribbons. The user decides when the ink is getting too dim, just like with an old-fashioned typewriter (though most of those reversed the direction of the ribbon). Admittedly, in the case of the DWP II, there was well over a year's delay before the cloth ribbons became available through the stores. I sent too many customers to the Ricoh dealer as a result, as they had them and we didn't. Blame Fort Worth -- I was in Los Angeles. (Wish I was now instead of being eight miles [as the pigeon craps] -- Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.