Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ImageWriter II help!! Message-ID: <9010060823.AA04539@apple.com> Date: 6 Oct 90 07:16:32 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 On Tue, 2 Oct 90 04:44:34 GMT Dale Bruce LaFountain said: >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. > If you feel confident enough, take the printer apart and clean EVERYthing. This happened to me once and after I cleaned it, it cleard everything up. I don't just mean the platten and the mechanicle parts, clean the circuit boards too. Go to an electonics shop and ask for Blue Shower... It's a spray can cleaner specifically for electronics. I used to repair old orifinal Imagewriters and when one stopped line feeding, this usually did the trick. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | This is your brain... | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | This is your brain on drugs... | pro-line: | | This is your brain on whole wheat.| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|