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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: My LaserWritter II dies %-(
Summary: if it is a sx
Message-ID: <1861@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 91 05:35:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.154326.16528@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Feb12.154326.16528@athena.mit.edu>, zaval@athena.mit.edu (Antonios J Zavaliangos) writes:
> 
> Suddenly my LaserWriter stopped printing and it spits out blank pages. %-(
> It doesn't even print the test page. There was a message in its log file

You can test sx engines by locating the test button on the right side
(looking from the front), down near the bottom.  Pushing the button that
is buried down in the hole (use a long slender piece of something),
should generate a page of fine lines.  If this is not happening, then the
engine is bad.  If it does, then the controller is bad perhaps.
try sending the following to it.

/Helvetica findfont 25 scalefont setfont
100 100 moveto
(are we alive?) show
showpage
^D

This should print out a page.  If it does, then something is messed
up upline.
if not, call for help.
Cheers
Woody