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From: jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: ImageWriter II Intermittant Problem
Message-ID: <1623@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 04:26:24 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 31
Keywords: ImageWriter, Hex Codes


	Several times my Imagewriter II has begun a new print job
by printing out the HEX codes instead of the proper characters.
I'm using an SE and driver version 2.6.
	The only way to stop it is to cancel the print job and turn
off the Imagewriter. It seems to happen with both MacWrite and Excel so
I don't think its application specific.  Last time, using Excel I got the
following printed out:

1B 3F 0D 1B 6F 1B 54 31 38 1B 72 0A 1B 66 0A 1B 4E 1B 21 1B 3E 1B 46 30 32 
31 31 1E 47 30 33 30 33 30

These seem to translate into normal control characters to set up the printer,
except I don't understand the first which is " ESC ?" or
SELF ID according to the manual. Could this be the problem? 
The stuff coming after the above the Hex appears to be the
bitmap of my printout.

Is there anyway that the Imagewriter could get into this mode-
printing out the HEX?
The manual doesn't seem to be of much help here-referring me to the Technical
manual, which of course being a mere owner, I don't have.

Anybody know whats going on?

									
				Jim Meiss				
		 		jdm@emx.utexas.edu
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