light pages on new cartridge (wasRe: Phototypesetter output)

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From: reid
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1988 16:32

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In article <4812@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Unrelated question: I just got a brand factory new toned cartridge and
>installed it. Changed the fuzzy brush thing too. Now my output
>doesnt come out as black as it used to for 3/4" solid black squares.
>They *used* to be pretty much solid black. Now, with this new
>toner, they're a little light in the middle. Any ideas ?

It's actually in the user's manual. RTFM. It takes a new cartridge about 100
pages to get to full blackness. The pages don't have to have anything on them.
I do this whenever I install a new cartridge:

/#copies 80 def showpage

>P.S. to Milo. This is your modem talking.

A message posted by a modem. I love it. I thought it was your modem.

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Subject: light pages on new cartridge (wasRe: Phototypesetter output)
Keywords: Linotronic, Camera ready copy
Message-ID: <591@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 88 16:32:23 GMT
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