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From: prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: ImageWriter II help!!
Message-ID: <113355@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 90 04:44:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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I am having just the GREATEST luck with hardware this month (sarcasm
intended).  Here is my problem:

My IW II just decided to stop feeding paper.  Using the line feed
button, I get varying advances of paper, from nothing up to the normal
amount.  Holding down the button (ie force form feed) or pressing the
FF button just makes it grind and do nothing.  Tugging on the paper
to help it out sometimes fixes that problem, but the line feed
problem is just too much of a pain to handle.

The really weird thing is I just printed 5 pages out this morning and
everything worked FINE.  I used AW 3.0 for 2 pages, and AWGS for 3 more.  Th
They came out flawlessly (well, almost).  But now I try printing from either
program and I get microspaced (vertically) text and AWGS just looks like
hell.  The same thing happens with the self-test printout, which leads
me to believe that it's a stripped gear or something inside that I can't
see.

What's going on here?  Is there some impact-based problem that could
have been created from shipping (Portland->LA) that just took a while
to manifest?  UPS is really going to love this one...  'It worked
for a little while.....but now it's just ALL messed up.'

Any help would be greatly appreciated.	Please respond via e-mail.

Dale LaFountain
prophet@oxy.edu