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Re: printer problem

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From: briand
Date: Wed, 14 May 1986 17:04
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>I've been having a problem with the Image Writer printer.
>Standard continuours feed computer paper works fine up to a
>point in outputing a long text.  But at the eleventh page the
>printer hangs up.  When I check out the problem (printer not
>reponding error msg appears on mac) the only thing wrong is that
>the holes are no longer on the sprockets.

You probably have the friction (typewriter style) feed on.  On the left side
of the TOP of the IW, you will find a lever with perhaps cryptic markings.  One
of the markings, the one toward the rear of the IW, shows pin-fed paper.  Moving
the lever the other way tightens the rollers against the platen to feed paper
like a typewriter.  The two feed methods are incompatible, as you are finding
out.

I do not know the location of the eqivalent control for the IW II, but you can
be sure there is one.

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc.
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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP
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Subject: Re: printer problem
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Date: Wed, 14-May-86 13:04:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 13:04:01 1986
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