Hey Gregg...
It's not that it jams on anything...it prepares the cartridge to print, then just when it's about to print, the error and power lights come on.
Sorry, I should have been more specific.
Ian
On Oct 17, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- Ian Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, I tried to print, and every time I try to, the cartridge jams and the PrintMonitor comes back with an error.
The drive belt you reinstalled is out of sync.
Try this. Take the belt off and push the carriage all the way to the right, turn the printer on and wait for all action to stop, then turn it off.
Put the belt back on without moving the carriage any. Most inkjet printers have a "home" switch or sensor so they know when the carriage is in the parked position, then they can count drive motor steps to determine where the carriage is.
Some printers can compensate for a belt slipping a tooth or like your case where it came off. They run the carriage to the right until the home sensor is tripped, then the controls know where everything is.
Apparently that Stylewriter only uses its home sensor, if it has one, to prevent banging the carriage into either end. If it has any compensation it can't do very much. Either that or the home sensor isn't working. (A common problem on the HP Deskjet/Deskwriter 500 series. Built like a tank, except for the leetle teeny tiny FRAGILE lever that the massive carriage slams into and eventually breaks so the home switch quits working.)
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