[comp.sys.mac] Laserwriter NT bug...

ELLIOT@STAR.STANFORD.EDU (Elliot Bennett) (02/18/89)

Ok, here's an obscure one for all you manual-feed people:

I've got a Laserwriter II NT (at the moment all to myself!!) connected to
a Mac II running System 6.0.2 and Finder 6.1 etc, etc.  When I try to do
a manual feed and LEAVE PAPER TO BE HAND FED IN THE TRAY BEFORE THE RED LIGHT
COMES ON, the paper feeds just fine, but the red light doesn't go off.  If,
on the other hand, I wait for the red light to come and THEN feed in the paper,
the red light goes off (as it should) after the sheet goes through.  Make
any sense?  Has anyone seen this too, or is my logic board not quite all
there?

Any info would be greatly appreciated...
Elliot Bennett
elliot@star.stanford.edu

Disclaimer:
Now, don't try this at home kids...
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folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (02/18/89)

I have experienced the same thing: if you insert manual feed paper before
you are asked for it, the light doesn't go out.  If you wait until the
light comes on first, it goes out.  I assume that this is merely annoying.

BUT, I have had a problem (once, then couldn't recreate it) where I printed
a FreeHand 2 document, and the printer "spooled up" to the high-pitched
whine it has...and stayed there.  Thirty seconds and the paper still
hadn't come through.  It had been sucked down to the first stop--where it
can pause for as long as 5 seconds at times--but it went no farther.  So
I turned the printer off.  Sometime I will investigate this...


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)