WP 34S printing scrambled text on HP82240B

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(05-24-2016 11:06 AM)damaltor Wrote:  The Printers A and B share the same hardware as far as i remember, the only difference is a different character set in ROM.

Excerpt from Richard J. Nelson HP-82240B Article in HP Solve #18

IR Printer: "A" Vs. "B" Model
The HP 82240A IR Printer was first introduced in late 1986.
Because it is a graphics printer the bottom of characters with descenders (lower case g, j, q, & y) touch the character below it.
An improved model, the HP 82240B was introduced in late 1989.

The "B" printer model has four improvements.

1. The "B" printer has an improved character set.
   The "A" version uses the Roman8 character set.
   This was modified to reduce the height of most upper case letters from seven dots high to six dots high.
   This improved readability with most character combinations providing two dots of interline spacing.
2. The "B" printer added a second (default) character set called ISO 8859-1, renamed ECMA 94.
   The "A" default character set is Roman8.
3. The "B" printer added a ten minute auto shutoff to conserve batteries.
   Leave the "A" printer on for two days and your batteries are completely DEAD!
4. The "B" printer added a red power-on indicator on the left front panel near the IR detector.
   

edit: typo