Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bunny!ps01
From: ps01@bunny.UUCP (Paul Suh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ImageWriter II Intermittant Problem
Message-ID: <5802@bunny.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:37:31 GMT
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Reply-To: ps01@bunny.UUCP (Paul Suh)
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
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In article <8804071740.AA26083@ssyx.ucsc.edu> avalon%ssyx.UCSC.EDU@ucscc.UCSC.EDU writes:
>I am having also a intermittant problem with my IWII and the one that is 
>used at my workplace.  The problem is that occasionally, not every page,
>but every now adn then, the first line or two on the page is condensed up
>and down, in other words, the line is scrunched so that letters are half
>of their original height...width is not affected.
>
>Scott A. McIntyre

This is a problem with the way paper is fed: via a push from where the
paper enters, rather than a pull from where it exits.  The seam at the
end of a page in a set of continuous feed paper hangs up for a little
bit when it hits the cover of the machine.  It is not as much of a problem 
on the IW II as it is on the IW I, because of the different design.  

For me (an IW I user), I leave the cover open so that the paper doesn't catch
on the cover.  I don't have an IW II handy, so I can't check if you can
do the same thing.  I think you can't because the way the cover is
designed on the IW II, if it's off, the printer won't operate.  If I
recall correctly, you may be able to detatch the clear plastic part, and
it will have the same effect, more or less.  

The _BIG_ drawback is, of course, the increased noise level!

					--Paul