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Re: [Digital BW] Roller and pizza wheel marks with MIS PK on a 2200

2005-02-08 by Louis Dina

Thanks, Guy.  Worked like a charm.

Lou

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "guy_staley" 
<guy_staley@y...> wrote:
> 
> The trick is to pop the little tab up in the hole immediately to 
the right of the 
> white roller.
> 
> I, too, couldn't figure out what was holding the wheel down. As it 
turns out, it 
> has nothing to do with the wheel: there is a number of tabs that 
poke through 
> the holes along the length of the aluminum piece which hold the 
pizza wheels 
> in place. If you look to the immediate right of the white roller, 
you'll notice that 
> particular tab is pushed through the whole and out of place. It's a 
little hard to 
> describe, but if you look, you'll probably see what I'm talking 
about.
> 
> In order to get the tab popped back up through the whole and 
latched as it 
> should be, I had to use the thin metal tip of a mechanical pencil. 
You need to 
> get behind the tab and pull it clear so that it can pop back up 
through the hole. I 
> know I'm not explaining this very well, but...
> 
> At any rate, once you pop the tab back through the whole, you 
should be able 
> to latch it again. I suggest that people NOT do this mod, as it 
actually torques 
> the pizza wheel assembly a little bit, not to mention that it 
actually forces the 
> last 2 or 3 wheels (closet to the white roller) down. So although 
it lifts the 
> majority of the pizza wheels out of the way, it doesn't lift them 
all out of the way.
> 
> There's an easier way to accomplish the same thing which allows 
itself to be 
> undone more easily: simply prop the aluminum bar up by putting 
something of 
> the appropriate size under the edge of the bar next to the white 
roller. I used a 
> small piece of rubber pencil eraser cut to an appropriate 
thickness. Works like 
> a charm, and is easy to remove! Now I have pizza wheel free prints, 
and such 
> a simple solution.
> 
> Cheers!
> -Guy
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "David 
Wroblewski" <
> dawroblewski@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl 
Schofield
> > <scho@m...> wrote:
> > > Also, raise the front pizza wheels by holding up the silver 
> > > bar with the pizza wheels with your right thumb and index 
finger and 
> > > then push down with your left little finger on the small 
> > > white plastic wheel at the left end of the row of pizza wheels 
> > > until the white wheel snaps down and locks up the silver bar 
> > > with pizza wheels.
> > 
> > Carl, any idea how to reverse this once it's done? I snapped mine
> > down, and have had a paper feed problem printing a 10 inch image 
> > on 8.5x11 EEM. I'd like to restore it to see if it makes a 
> > difference. I can't figure out the trick.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > David

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