Printing problems

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2 total messages Started by Anne Haworth Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00

#1584

Author: Anne Haworth
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:00

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Can anyone help with a problem I'm having with my Color Stylewriter 2400?
Today, after I connected an external CD drive, upgraded from Clarisworks
3.0 to 5.0 and installed Internet Explorer 4, the printer happily printed
the IE4 licence agreement in Catalan (I wanted it for educational reasons!)
and most of the Spanish version before finishing off in stripes. Since
then, it makes all the right noises but either prints nothing or various
sorts of irregular stripes (not like the effect you get when you need a new
cartridge, though I have, of course, changed it to no effect). It won't
even print the test page, again producing either a complete blank or
various sqwiggles. Surely the ability to produce the test page shouldn't be
affected by my various installations (which seem to be working OK!)? Any
ideas?

Re: Printing problems

#1589

Author: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00

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Anne Haworth <achaworth@djandac.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]
> Surely the ability to produce the test page shouldn't be
> affected by my various installations (which seem to be working OK!)?

Assuming that the test page printing is controlled entirely by the
printer, I'd guess that the printer itself is most likely having some
sort of trouble.  If it'll print a test page without being plugged in to
the Mac, try that.  If it's still sulking...  You might try leaving it
off for a bit, and cleaning (I use meths and cotton bud - be careful
about lint left behind) the print cartridge contacts in the printer and
on the print cartridge

Rowland.

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