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From: dcl@cunixc.columbia.edu (Don Lanini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: To Nick Bhatt at Apple & other people with the ImageWriter self-destruct problem
Message-ID: <447@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 88 17:11:26 GMT
Reply-To: abr1@cunixc.columbia.edu (Amanda Rosen)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac
Organization: Columbia University
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Keywords: Imagewriter self-destruct


I've seen this problem with a number of printers. I diagnosed it as a buffer
failure of a very unusual sort... Flow control was broken, data was being
lost, and apparently the printer was losing track of its printhead location.
After failing to fix one of these printers four times, a local (N.Y.C.) dealer
replaced the buffer stuff and it worked fine. I've had this problem with
ImageWriter I's, II's, and the old wide-carriage model.

I don't know if this problem is exactly the same as those reported recently on
the net, but it seems likely.

I can receive mail at the address in the header, but I can only send to BITNET
addresses, so if you mail me, don't expect much in the way of a reply...

abr1@cunixc.columbia.edu
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Don Lanini
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