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From: sage@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (David Martosko '91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Imagewriter II -and- Programming
Keywords: Imagewriter programming compressed hex output
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Date: 18 Nov 88 23:26:56 GMT
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In article <4484@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:

>1) My imagewriter II occasionally prints lines of text 'squashed', i.e.
>   about 1 pin shorter than they should be.

Mine does this on occasion too, but only on the first line of a print
job.  Unfortunately, that line is usually where my name goes (in a
letterhead, or on a term paper)!

>2) Occasionally, when I send output to my Imagewriter II, the darn thing
>   just starts spitting out reams of hex code in neat little columns.

This I can help with.  Apple built in this feature for service technicians:
if you turn on the Imagewriter II WHILE holding down the "select" button, all
the text that goes to the printer will be printed in hex code.  Unfortunately
for the end-user, the select button is so close to the on/off switch that
it's incredibly easy to trigger this hidden feature without knowing it.

Hope this helps.

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