If you feel comfortable working in DOS, the easiest way to try to disable ATM is by temporarily renaming the ATM.INI file in the Windows directory to something else (like ATM.SAV), and restarting Windows. After determining whether or not ATM and Time Line for Windows are incompatible, enable ATM again by renaming the ATM.SAV file back to ATM.INI. If the renaming ATM.INI is not enough to disable ATM, then proceed with the following method.
You will need to edit both the WIN.INI and the SYSTEM.INI files to disable ATM. The Windows Notepad is a good choice for this editing job (DOS 5's Edit could also be used). IMPORTANT: Before editing the WIN.INI and the SYSTEM.INI files, make backup copies of them to a floppy disk or another directory on the hard drive.
Launch Notepad, do a File Open and select the WIN.INI file from the Windows 3.1 directory. From the Notepad Search Menu, search for "softfonts=". Insert a new line above this one and type in "[ATM.OFF]". Press the F3 key to search for any more occurrences of the softfonts statement and add the [ATM.OFF] line. You need to do this for all occurrences of the softfonts statement. Note: you may not have these lines in the WIN.INI file at all since they only occur if you have ever installed the postscript driver. Save the file and open the SYSTEM.INI file which is also in the Windows 3.1 directory. In the [boot] section look for the following two lines:
SYSTEM.DRV=ATMSYS.DRV
ATM.SYSTEM.DRV=SYSTEM.DRV
Comment out those two lines with a semicolon like this:
;SYSTEM.DRV=ATMSYS.DRV
;ATM.SYSTEM.DRV=SYSTEM.DRV
Then add the following line to the [boot] section (it can be placed anywhere in this section):
SYSTEM.DRV=SYSTEM.DRV
Save this file, quit Windows, then restart Windows. Printouts should now come out correctly.