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From: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Imagewriter and //e
Message-ID: <113300201@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 22:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!saa33413    Dec  1 16:32:00 1989


You say you purchased your IIe system in 1982 (seven years ago).  I didn't know
they were making Imagewriters back then.  I thought the Imagewriter came out in
1984 or so as THE printer for the Macintosh.  (Never mind that it's also a 
great printer for the II!)

I'm no hardware expert, but it sounds like you have some sort of glitch.  You
might try feeling the printer to see how warm it gets.  Is it running hot?
Heat affects RAM in a negative way, so excessive heat might change a bit here
and there in the print buffer.  These glitches happen to manifest themselves as
printer control codes.

Another possibility is that one or more chips might just be bad.  A bad ROM 
could change print styles as it sees fit.  Who knows, maybe even the driver
circuits for the print mechanism are shot.

Just some ideas.

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