Dot matrix printer problem

[Bepi Esposito Vingiano]

Hi to all,
I have a problem on a old Star LC20 dot matrix printer.
I used it with an old pc with Windows XP Pro (Pentium III) and all was
ok.
Now I have attached the printer to a new PC.
Printing form excel, word, notepad and so on is now extremely slow.
The printer prints a line, then stop for 20 seconds then another line
then 20 seconds stop and so on. From dos prompt is ok.
The new Pc has the same S.O. same drivers same setting of the old PC.
Anyone can help?

Thanks

 

[Bepi Esposito Vingiano]

Thanks Warren and Jerry.
Warren, I don't see any plain text setting on driver
Jerry, why the same font had no problem with the old PC?
On the old PC graphic printings were ok. I don't understand.
Maybe some incompatibility with parallel port or something similar?
Ciao

 

[Warren Block]

Warren, I don't see any plain text setting on driver

Please don't top-post. It makes responding to your posts more
difficult.

I can't see what options your driver has. The idea is to look for one
where the computer sends an "A" as one ASCII character rather than a
hundred-character bitmap. Could be called "draft quality" or something
else, too. Have you compared the driver options with what was set on
the older computer?

 

[Jerry]

Jerry, why the same font had no problem with the old PC?

Are you SURE it's using the same font as on the old PC? If a document
specifies a font that is not resident within Windows, Windows will
substitute what it thinks is the best substitute font.

In any case, the advice remains the same. Check the font being used,
and change to a printer-resident font if necessary. Your goal is to
make the current setup work well, not to figure out why the old setup
worked well.

Jerry