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In a msg of , Mike Ruskai writes to Steve Mccrystal:
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Mike,
 SM>> An Epson Stylus Color 600 inkjet.  The only thing that seems
 SM>> to work is the SPP (Standard P-Port) setting in the bios
 SM>> settings.  The printer is supposed to be IEEE-1284
 SM>> compliant, at least that's what the specs say. I know the
 SM>> bios isn't supposed to be used once OS/2 is booted, but
 SM>> I assume *this* setting is still important.
 MR> You seem to be confusing CMOS setup with BIOS a little bit.
Actually, I know the difference, but from reading the above it surely isn't 
obvious! :^)
 MR> OS/2 will use the hardware as configured by the CMOS setup, unless
 MR> something is telling it to do differently (like a device driver).
 MR> Are you saying that despite setting it to be a standard parallel
 MR> port, that OS/2 is trying to make it a ECP/EPP port?
Well, no... what I'm saying is that when I configure the port as ECP or 
ECP/EPP, OS/2 doesn't recognise that there is a printer attached, at least as 
far as the printer object is concerned (the status line at the top of the 
"Printer - Job icon view" window says (near as I can recall) "No printer 
attached", and the printer doesn't work.
When I configure as a standard printer port (IRQ7) the printer works, but not 
bidirectional.
One can't help but notice the Lexmark filenames in the BIDI.EXE archive, so 
I'm left wondering if it is intended to work with other than Lexmark/IBM 
printers, or if it does work with other printers.
-[Steve]-
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