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Subject: Re: Imagewriter trouble & possible replacement
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Date: 20 Nov 89 23:49:34 GMT
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In article <6234@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long) writes:
>
>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:
>
If you think that is bad, imagine a 3 hour lab with 50 Mac II's used by
first year computer science students, With 9 ImageWriter II's.  Each 
student prints at least 5 pages per hour.  Every second page gets jammed
in the sprocket feed, or lines become scrunched up or ...  Then imagine
50 students getting mad, and reprinting their job 3 times, trying to
adjust the printer ... 

Does anyone know of a decent solution to this problem with ImageWriter II's.

Or better yet an alternative printer that can be used in a network environment
under heavy load.

Jim Bruyn
University of Waterloo