Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!casseres
From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Imagewriter II -and- Programming
Keywords: Imagewriter programming compressed hex output
Message-ID: <254@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 88 17:45:10 GMT
References: <4484@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <11009@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <11009@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> sage@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (David Martosko '91) writes:
>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)!

The "squashed" line of text occurs when the top of the page (either a cut
edge or a perforation) encounters the pinch-rollers on the bail, causing
the paper to buckle just a bit.

The only cure I am aware of is to use the sheet-feeder accessory, or hand-
fed cut sheets.  The reason this works is that with cut sheets you clamp the
paper to the platen (when you throw the large lever at the right end of the
platen), and this gives the paper less room to buckle.

Personally I recommend the sheet feeder if you don't mind paying for it.
It gives all-around better paper handling than pin-feed.  Yes, I do work
for Apple...

David Casseres