printf does not display in the console

Here is a screen shot of my SOPC design.

I managed to get the LED's flashing with the same code on a small footprint design using only on chip RAM and nothing external.

I could not use a Jtag debug module in this case and so just flashed the .hex into the FPGA by buidling the C code and then compiling the quartus project.

this makes me think the problem is associated to one of the external memory components.

The SOPC design is from an altera example for my kit - i didnt produce it myself and so do not completely understand the requirment for all of the components.

I really want to have a SOPC design that can handle larger footprint Nios projects up and running.

Any ideas would be welcome.

Ade