Gemini Industries Printer user manual Removing the Tractor Unit

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Gemini User’s Manual

Removing the Tractor Unit

The tractor unit is only used with fanfolded computer paper. (That’s the paper that comes in perforated sheets, folded into stacks, with rows of holes along the right and left edges.) To print onto single sheets, you need to remove the tractor unit.

To remove the tractor unit, follow these simple steps:

1.Turn off the printer. (This isn’t really a “requirement:’ but is a good safety precaution, at least until you become more experienced with your Gemini.)

2.Identify the two “snap levers” by

comparing your printer with the Gemini-lox shown in Figure 2-1.

3.Pull both “snaplevers” forward (one on the right and one on the left of the tractor unit), and at the same time. . .

4. . . . Rock the tractor unit up and back, about a half-inch. The tractor unit rests on two “stoppers” just above the right and left ends of the platen. This step in removing the tractor is done by simply rocking the unit backward after you’ve released the snap levers that hold it in place.

5.Now lift the tractor unit toward you, up and forward from the printer.

Superman may be able to stop a speeding locomotive, but you just lifted a tractor! With the tractor removed, your Gemini should look like the printer shown in Figure 2-2. (Of course, if you have a Gemini-15X your printer will be wider, but you still get the idea.)

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