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From: pxw@augean.OZ (Paul Whitbread)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help:  ImageWriter Traction Feed Slips
Summary: Cleaning the roller helps, but doesn't cure
Keywords: imagewriter I, slipping paper
Message-ID: <660@augean.OZ>
Date: 17 Nov 89 04:41:51 GMT
References: <1989Nov15.212920.3068@arnor.uucp>
Organization: Engineering Faculty, University of Adelaide, Australia
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In article <1989Nov15.212920.3068@arnor.uucp> SUHLER@IBM.COM writes:
>I've got a 4-1/2 year old ImageWriter-I whose traction feed began to slip
>about six months ago.  Whenever I run something heavy through, like an envelope
>it slips and print lines run together.
>
> ....

Me too. But mine also slips with standard A4 bond (7gms) paper.
I blamed strained springs because I first noticed it after using a borrowed
Thunderscanner to digitize a photograph which was on very thick paper.
However, it is clearly a problem when the roller is dirty.  My partial 
solution has been to clean the roller with alcohol (meth spirits,
not brandy!) each time I have trouble. But don't expect this to work
too well or for too long.  I find it very frustrating to be printing
a multipage document and find some of the pages that I didn't
watch carefully are no good.

Paul Whitbread
pxw@augean.ua.oz.au