Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: bi-directional Imagewriter printing Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 14:06:39 GMT References: <27A677EE.2746@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1738@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <11971@goofy.Apple.COM> Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 17 In comp.sys.mac.system, article <11971@goofy.Apple.COM>, casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes: < < The reason bidirectional printing is suppressed is that it looks bad on < *some* ImageWriter II's. < The problem seems to be that the print head move,emt has some slack in it, so that moving to the left places the dots in other places than moving to the right. Aren't the two smaller, difficult-to-change, "factory set--do not touch" DIP switches supposed to be able to correct that problem? I dimly recall a posting a few months ago... -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49+721+621127(0700-2330) \o)/