jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) (04/07/88)
Several times my Imagewriter II has begun a new print job by printing out the HEX codes instead of the proper characters. I'm using an SE and driver version 2.6. The only way to stop it is to cancel the print job and turn off the Imagewriter. It seems to happen with both MacWrite and Excel so I don't think its application specific. Last time, using Excel I got the following printed out: 1B 3F 0D 1B 6F 1B 54 31 38 1B 72 0A 1B 66 0A 1B 4E 1B 21 1B 3E 1B 46 30 32 31 31 1E 47 30 33 30 33 30 These seem to translate into normal control characters to set up the printer, except I don't understand the first which is " ESC ?" or SELF ID according to the manual. Could this be the problem? The stuff coming after the above the Hex appears to be the bitmap of my printout. Is there anyway that the Imagewriter could get into this mode- printing out the HEX? The manual doesn't seem to be of much help here-referring me to the Technical manual, which of course being a mere owner, I don't have. Anybody know whats going on? Jim Meiss jdm@emx.utexas.edu jdm%uta.MFENET@nmfecc.ARPA -------------------------------------------------------------------------
gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (04/07/88)
This is a FEATURE of the ImageWriter II that you have unwittingly found.
If you hold down the delect button when you turn on printer on, then
it will print out in hex. This is used for debugging the pringer, presumably.
Now the select button is so close to the on/off button, that you may sometimes
accidentally touch the select when you turn on. The cure: turn off, then
carefully turn on without touching select.
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Gerald A. Edgar TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet
Department of Mathematics gae@osupyr.UUCP
The Ohio State University ...{akgua,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!osupyr!gae
Columbus, OH 43210 70715,1324 CompuServeavalon@SSYX.UCSC.EDU (Scott A. McIntyre) (04/08/88)
+-In article <1623@ut-emx.UUCP>, jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) wrote:- [stuff about a Imagewriter Problem deleted] I am having also a intermittant problem with my IWII and the one that is used at my workplace. The problem is that occasionally, not every page, but every now adn then, the first line or two on the page is condensed up and down, in other words, the line is scrunched so that letters are half of their original height...width is not affected. Whatever help you can offer would be appriciated Scott A. McIntyre avalon@ssyx.ucsc.edu avalon@ucscb.ucsc.edu avalon@ucsck.ucsc.edu
ps01@bunny.UUCP (Paul Suh) (04/08/88)
In article <8804071740.AA26083@ssyx.ucsc.edu> avalon%ssyx.UCSC.EDU@ucscc.UCSC.EDU writes: >I am having also a intermittant problem with my IWII and the one that is >used at my workplace. The problem is that occasionally, not every page, >but every now adn then, the first line or two on the page is condensed up >and down, in other words, the line is scrunched so that letters are half >of their original height...width is not affected. > >Scott A. McIntyre This is a problem with the way paper is fed: via a push from where the paper enters, rather than a pull from where it exits. The seam at the end of a page in a set of continuous feed paper hangs up for a little bit when it hits the cover of the machine. It is not as much of a problem on the IW II as it is on the IW I, because of the different design. For me (an IW I user), I leave the cover open so that the paper doesn't catch on the cover. I don't have an IW II handy, so I can't check if you can do the same thing. I think you can't because the way the cover is designed on the IW II, if it's off, the printer won't operate. If I recall correctly, you may be able to detatch the clear plastic part, and it will have the same effect, more or less. The _BIG_ drawback is, of course, the increased noise level! --Paul