
If the print is faint, or uneven, check the following:
Check | Possible remedy |
Is the ribbon properly in- | Check and reinstall if necessary. |
stalled? |
|
Is the ribbon worn out?
The ribbon has a long life, but will eventually need re- placing. Fit a new ribbon cartridge if necessary.
If dots are missing in the printing, check the following:
Check |
|
| Possible | remedy |
|
|
|
| |
Are dots | missing at random | The | ribbon has become slack, causing | it to get | caught | ||||
in the printing? |
| up. | Stop | printing, | remove | the ribbon | cartridge, | reten- | |
|
|
| sion | and replace | it. |
|
|
| |
ls a line | of dots missing | con- | The | head is damaged. | Stop printing, and | contact | |||
sistently | throughout | the | your | supplier for | a new print head. |
|
| ||
printing? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
If your application software cannot print the fonts or characters selected, check the following:
Check |
|
| Possible | remedy |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||
Is your application | software | Check | the software | installation, | the | soft- | |||||||||||
properly | installed? |
| ware if necessary. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||
Are | fonts | not being | selected | Check | the software | installation, | and | insert | the | com- | |||||||
properly? |
|
| mands | necessary | for font | changes | into | the | software. | ||||||||
Are | characters other than | Either | you are using | the wrong | International | Character | |||||||||||
those |
| expected | being | Set (reset | with | EDS | switches | or software | commands), | ||||||||
printed? |
|
| or you | have | the | wrong | character | set | selected | (for | |||||||
|
|
|
| example if characters other than IBM block graphic | |||||||||||||
|
|
|
| characters are being printed). Correct this with EDS | |||||||||||||
|
|
|
| switches or the appropriate software sequences. |
| ||||||||||||
If the printout is not what is expected: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||
t Check |
|
| 1 Possible | remedv |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| I |
Is the printer installed cor- rectly?
Is the printer not printing anything that you are expect- ing?
Your software may think that it is driving a different emulation to the one actually set. Check the EDS set- tings to make sure you have the right emulation.
Use the Hex Dump mode to analyze the output from the computer to the printer. This will enable you to deter- mine that the right escape sequences, etc are being transmitted.
109