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Our group, the Northern Michigan Ski Academy has a MARTEL 9800 printer that we want to use to print out the timing log during our races.

We use an ALGE S4 and/or a COMET for our clock and run SST "Club" software. The printer is fed thru a serial to USB convertor.

When I hook up the 9800 printer to take the serial output of the timing log from SST "Club", the printer prints out the bib number, the clock start time and the clock finish time. What is missing from the timing log output is the elapsed time that shows in the "view timing log" screen from the software.

This isn't what I expected to be printed on the tape as the elapsed time is most important data point (next to the bib number).

If you compare the tape printout with timing log screen, it appears that the information is getting cut off or printed over by the next clock start time or other data.

Changing the DIP switches from the SW #2 & #4 in OFF only makes the problem worse.

The MARTEL 9800 is a sweet little printer and I would love to use it in this application but...Does anybody have a solution to this problem?
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