Digital BW, The Print

Thanks to all who replied and helped me solve this problem. After some 
consideration of the standard solutions and after poking around inside 
the machine awhile to see how things worked I arrived at yet another 
procedure for fixing the Epson 2200 pizzawheels. After lifting the top 
cover of the printer, you will notice a short metal tab at the far left 
which has clearance to swing up and down a few degrees, lifting the 
pizza wheels up so that they don't touch the paper. Using a bent 
paperclip I fashioned a hook of just the right size to loop around this 
tab. The other end of the hook is looped around the metal structure at 
the left, just to the right of the white plastic gears. This lifts the 
pizzawheels off the paper, but not so high that they interfere with the 
movement of the print head (if indeed they would interfere at the 
highest setting.) Does it scare me to go sticking a metal doohickey 
inside where it could fall down and possibly short out a circuit board 
or something?  Uh... yes, a little. But it seems to be hooked in there 
very solidly and is easily removed if I need to have the printer 
serviced. I dealt with the rubber wheels using the standard MIS 
recommended small zip tie method and am now getting unblemished prints! 

> In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "prexadotcom"
> <john.m.gardner@r...> wrote:

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I get little 
> > dotted track marks which I belive are coming from the tiny metal 
spurs 
> > or pinwheels that are part of the paper feed mechanism. 
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