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Re: Where to fix my 1200 in SF?

2003-04-23 by Kees Brandenburg

This catatonic 'headbanging' happens often with the 1200 when the head
can't slide freely. Try lubricating (lightly) the chrome-coloured
sliding bar and the slidingrail on which the printhead is hanging.

kees


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "markaronica"
<aronica@m...> wrote:
> Recently my 1200 has started to make a terrible grinding noise when I 
> try and load paper.  The print head first slides over to the left (as 
> it is supposed to do), but seems to go too far forcing the printer to 
> make a horrible sound, like the gears are grinding.  I've tried 
> resetting the printer as explained by fixyourownprinter.com, but it 
> doesn't seem to fix the problem.
> 
> I think I may need to bring the printer in to be fixed.  Does anyone 
> know of either a solution for fixing the printer, or a place I can 
> bring it to in the San Francisco Bay Area?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark

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