Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jim hayes" <jimhayes@f...> 
wrote:

<snip>

> Many moons ago, someone posted a really neat way to disengage the 
1160 
> head which I think involves rotating the big white plastic gear on 
the 
> left side of printer- but since I have never done this myself, you 
> should get someone else to point you to this post or repeat it as I 
> can't advise you here.

I'm very behind on my digest as usual so I'm a little late on this 
thread.

You can manually move the print head to the left as Jim stated above 
by:

1. Switch off the printer.

2. Push the carts/print head to the right of the parked position.

3. Roll the large white plastic cog on the left side of the printer 
clockwise.  It only needs about an 8th of a revolution but turning 
further causes no harm.  This will move the white plastic "peg" 
(can't think of another word for it) down, allowing you to freely 
move the print head to the left.  Make sure that the peg is fully 
withdrawn.

4. Do all your paper towel cleaning.

5. Move the print head back to the parked position and, while keeping 
it pushed a little further to the right than the normal parked 
position, turn the large plastic cog anti-clockwise to lock the white 
plastic peg as far as it will go without using undue force.

6. Push the print head back to the left a little so that it is flush 
against the white peg.

It sounds a lot more complicated than it is.  So just give it a go.

Good luck.

K2