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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: My ImageWriter II is flaking out
Message-ID: <1491@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 6 Feb 90 20:46:27 GMT
References: <1147@pmafire.UUCP>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac.hardware geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) writes:
< 
< The symptom is that the printer doesn't always start in the correct
< position horizontally.  For example, the printer might start printing
< the page in the center, rather than at the left side.  Then, when it
< reaches the right side, it makes a very hideous sound as the print head
< reaches its rightmost limit. 
< 
This seems like your left margin switch is stuck.

When turning the printer on, it normally moves the head all the way to the
left (to learn its exact position), and then to the center (to make inserting
the paper easier).

If your head doesn't move to the left, but instead either stays where it is or
moves half a page's width to the right, that might be it.

Disclaimer: The reasonable thing for the priner to do in such a case is to
blink its error light and not do anything (after all, the printer could
realize something is amiss as soon as the switch doesn't turn off when the
head gets moved to the right), so I don't know how valid this analysis is.

< Any ideas from y'all?
< 
Ideas, yes; but I don't know if it'll actually help...

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Matthias Urlichs