Digital BW, The Print

In the context of the thread on how to stabilize the acrylic arm that supports the 
CIS tubes, here is one way that seems simple enough:

Using a flexible wire - such as the kind used in cheap wire hangers - you can 
bend it into a shape that makes a bridge between the front of the printer and 
the back and crosses under the CIS arm. A couple of pliers and an old hanger 
is all that is needed.


The basic shape is an L facing down (rotated 90 degrees). The short stroke of 
the L then sits on the plastic ledge in the front, while the long stroke rides on 
top of the back of the printer. For this to be able to stand, you need to stabilize 
it by providing a base along the front edge. This base can be made a number 
of ways, one of which is simply to bend an extra length of wire so that it rides 
the channel just behind the front of the printer and above the metal chassis. 
Care must be taken to make sure that anything there clears the path of the 
head. You can manually move the heads past this point to rehearse before 
attempting to print.

I hope this proves useful to those with droopy CIS arms.

Antonis