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From: bokonon@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Genghis Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Imagewriter & Sys 6.0.4
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Date: 12 Feb 90 09:10:59 GMT
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 Greetings!

   Please excuse my ignorance if this subject has been breached and solved
already....

  I work in a lab that has 10 Mac IIs and about 8 Mac Pluses.  The IIs have
2 MB RAM and the Pluses 2.5.  At the moment, we seem to have fallen victim to
a bug i'd yet to see, until we started using 6.0.4.  

 Basically, when printing to a direct connect Imagewriter, from any Mac, using
any word processor (i haven't seen the error when using other programs)
the first page of output will have an integer number at the top, left-hand 
corner, usually 16,xxx.  The rest of the lines on the page will have double
"o"s (stacked on top of each other), a pair on either end of each line.
  The only solution seems to be rebooting the Mac and turning the Imagewriter
OFF and then ON.

   As i said, we are running sys 6.0.4 on all the machines and a Mac II file
server.  The file server is also running the Apple Print server program for
a networked Laserwriter Plus.  The INITs on the machines are fairly limited:
  Gatekeeper, Gatekeeper Aid, Moire CDEV & INIT, In Use CDEV and a few others,
which seem to not be the cause after a little experimentation. 

   Any help will be most gratefully appreciated!

   johan van Zanten

(bokonon@snowwhite.cc.utexas.edu)