Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!xanth!mcnc!thorin!rho!markham From: markham@rho.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: IW II print head burning hole in ribbon. Keywords: Help!!!!! Message-ID: <9894@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 9 Oct 89 19:14:03 GMT Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Lines: 25 My sister goes to grad school in Missouri and asked me a question for a friend that I have never heard of before (I work for UNC-CH Computer Science Dept and we have ~50 IW IIs and no one has ever heard of this problem). When he (friend of sister) prints to his Imagewriter, occasionally it will stop at ~1/4 of a page and the print head will burn a hole through the ribbon causing him to buy and replace many ribbons. This had happened to him about 18 months ago and the on-campus repair shop replaced the print head for $39. Since it has started back up again he went back to the repair shop and now they want $110 to replace the printhead. This didn't sound right to me. I was wondering if anyone of you have ever had or witnessed this type of problem. Could this guy just have a lemon? Please respond via e-mail (I read the newsgroup daily, but don't think there are many others interested) and I will post results if so desired. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Andrew W. Markham Computer Science Department UNC-CH "Nobody in the world can cover my main man Michael Jordan. No, No, Nooobody." - Mars Blackmon