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From: jstraigl@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeffrey S Traigle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Imagewriter and //e
Summary: Becoming very annoying
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.030300.15730@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 03:03:00 GMT
Reply-To: jstraigl@uokmax.UUCP (Jeffrey S Traigle)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network, Norman, OK
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This is a problem I have since I got my //e and Imagewriter
about 7 years ago.  For the first year or two I hardly ever
used my printer so it didn't bother me too much.  Over the
course of the last few years it has really gotten on my
nerves and would apreciate some help with it.

Now since you're probably wondering what this problem is now
I'll tell you.

Sometimes (read 98% of the time) when I try to print something
all the printer does is spit out some garbage.  The only way I
have been able to print anything is to turn the computer off
and on until the printer decides it wants to cooperate.

Also, lately (within the last year), if I am printing any long
documents, I hold my breath hoping that it will get through the
entire thing without any problems.  It seems that sometimes the
printer decides that it wants to print in compressed form over
some short string of characters.  Once it goes back to standard
it continues normally, except sometimes it starts printing as
if the middle of the page were the left margin and things really
get screwed up.

Does anyone have any idea what has been and is the trouble with
this thing?  Thanks in advance.

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