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From: bhatt@Apple.COM (Nick Bhatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help! Labels get stuck in ImageWriter II
Message-ID: <11626@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 4 Jun 88 23:11:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: apple.11626
References: <89@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: bhatt@apple.UUCP (Nick Bhatt)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Summary: Getting rid of the little dance

In article <89@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>
>Here's my latest problem.  A friend is trying to print mailing labels on
>an ImageWriter II using Microsoft Word.  Everything on Word's side seems to
>be working fine, but the ImageWriter is chewing up the labels!
>
>....Mechanical Stuff
>
>The IW II likes to back up the paper and then advance it a bit right before
>it starts printing.  When it backs up, one of the labels from the single-
>column tractor-fed sheet "rolls" off and sticks itself to the metal strip.
>It sticks and it holds ... the printer tries to advance the label sheet but
>it can't.  It starts printing and prints it all on the line it got stuck on.
>

    I have been quietly watching the messages go back
and forth on Usenet about the ImageWriter printing
and peeling labels and I now have some questions.
    At the end of each page, the driver rolls
the paper to the point where you can tear it off
(known as last form tear-off). Then, when it prints
the next page, it rolls the paper back, so that it
can print at the top of that page.  This paper motion,
which we call "the little dance" is ONLY done to
permit last form tear-off.
    My questions to those interested:
    [1] Is last form tear-off important to you (i.e.,
    do you tear paper off right there, or do you
    eject a page anyway?)

    [2] Would you like an check box in the print
    dialog such as "Do little dance?"
    
Please e-mail to me your thoughts (or to the net
if e-mail is broken).
     --Nik Bhatt