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From: 871323o@aucs.uucp (Oliver Oey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Imagewriter trouble & possible replacement
Summary: I love it
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.075151.4611@aucs.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 07:51:51 GMT
References: <5330@internal.Apple.COM> <256CECDD.14888@paris.ics.uci.edu> <5403@internal.Apple.COM> <1989Nov29.231627.21009@oracle.com> <5502@internal.Apple.COM> <Dec.1.18.53.54.1989.6034@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: 871323o@aucs.UUCP (Oliver Oey)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <Dec.1.18.53.54.1989.6034@elbereth.rutgers.edu> joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes:
>and my Apple IIGS.  I find that for my use there, it is not a bad
>One trick I learned is to never tear off the page that just printed.
>Pulling on the paper tends to pre-skew it on the tractors and cause a
>jam on the next page.   If the paper is torn at or before the paper
>bail, it will also tend to curl too far and jam (especially if it was
>left curled around the platen for a few days).   I find the best thing
>to do is when something finishes printing, take the printer offline,
>eject a blank page and put the printer back online.   Rip your work
>off, by pulling putting one hand on the blank page and pulling against
>it, and not the tractors.   Leave the extra page on to help guide the
>paper for the next printout.
>
I have been using the exact same technique for three years with my
Imagewriter II, it works perfectly.