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From: rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Tony Rimovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Imagewriter II
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.190035.9087@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 19:00:35 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I have a problem.  My imagewriter II has been acting flakey the past
couple of days.  For a while it ust wouldn't print.  (Yes, everything 
was set correctly, eg The SELECT button was on as well as power)  I didnt
do a thing to the printer.  I just kept sending print commands.  On about the
fifth try, it actually printed.  Then, for a while I was getting no line
feeds when I tried to print.  I was using ProTerm 2.2 with the printer set
to on.  I have done this many times in the past with no problems.       
Finally, I decided to run the self test.  Being lazy and not wanting to
go get the book, I tried to hold the PRINT QUALITY button down instead
of the FORM FEED button when starting.  I got this message printed:
	LOOP TEST

	ROMREV(05)

	DIPSW1 (00000100) DIPSW2 (1100), '1=ON,0=OFF'

    	RAM= 0 KB  AT=OFF

LOOP BACK TEST FAILS


I looked in the manual for the printer and it does not mention this
feature.  I did, incidently, run the real test and it came out fine.
Oh Yea! I almost forgot this:  the error light started blinking
in a pattern after I got the above print out.  2 blinks, pause, 
1 blink over and over again.  Any ideas?  I dont want to take this
to a *chuckle* Apple dealer (HaHaHaHa!!! Right. Id say Apple IIgs
and they'd say that was my problem!).  Anyway, thanks in advance!


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Tony Rimovsky                                rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
CSO - University of Illinois (part time)
Student - University of Illinois (also part time, but not intentionally)
Questions of life :
	"Why is there very little APPLE support for the IIgs?"
	and
	"Will I EVER be able to land an airplane from the
		right seat?"
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