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I'm having trouble with my Imagewriter II: It frequently scrunches up
lines during a printout. 12 point comes out looking like 4 point!  :-(.
Sometimes it happens at the beginning of a page, sometimes at the end,
sometimes in the middle, sometimes not at all; there seems to be no
consistency to it.  It's happened to some degree ever since the printer was
new, but lately has been getting worse.  In addition to this, since the
printer is glacially slow on best quality, I'm now thinking about a
replacement.  So, the questions:

1.	Is this problem perhaps something I can fix myself, by cleaning, or
adjusting?  Maybe by adjusting the paper path?  The paper sits under the
Imagewriter now (which is on top of a Kensington stand).  Please don't tell
me a dealer has to make the fix (if there is one), I have ZERO faith in
their abilities.

2.	If this is just an annoying characteristic of the Imagewriter, is
there a functionally equivalent replacement?  I've seen ads for a Seikosha,
does this work well?  Dot matrix quality is fine, I'm just looking for
something that is a functional clone of the IW, without the above problems. 
Speed is a factor.

Thank you very much,
Rich

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