[hacknews] line printer ill

henry (11/07/82)

The line printer is sick.  It won't stay READY.  Originally it looked
like it wouldn't come ready at all, which led me to suspect interface
or cable.  (The cable does have a loose connection where it enters the
switchbox, but that doesn't seem to be the problem.)  It now appears
that after a rest it is willing to wake up for a page or two, but then
it goes unready again.  Looks like something wrong in the printer
itself.  A thermal cutoff somewhere?