IBM 3000 manual Threading the Buffer/Flipper Unit Straight Line Conguration, Inline Conguration

Threading the Buffer/Flipper Unit

Straight Line Con®guration

Figure 32 shows the Buffer/Flipper Unit viewed from the front. The darker shaded side of the forms in Figure 32 is the side that is printed on Printer 1. The lighter shaded side of the forms is the side that is printed on Printer 2.

Use Figure 32 to thread the forms through the Buffer/Flipper Unit using the arrows as a guide from Printer 1 at the top of the ®gure to Printer 2 at the bottom of the ®gure. The result is that the forms are inverted 180° between Printer 1 and Printer 2.

The guide collars (A) through (F) on the roller bars were adjusted properly when the system was initially installed. Adjustments by you are probably not necessary, even if you are threading a form through the system with a different width than you previously threaded. When the forms are under tension and moving through the Buffer/Flipper Unit, they run up against the guide collars that are shown.

Figure 32. Inline Con®guration

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