Re: 82240B Repairs Message #2 Posted by Randy Sloyer on 19 Mar 2003, 7:36 a.m., in response to message #1 by John K. (US)
If you are running on batteries, it is time to change them. What you describe is a classic low battery situation were the print head speed slows below 1.9 seconds per line and the printer looses sync with the calculator, as there is no handshaking.
It can also be caused by paper chafe build-up in the printer carriage, slowing things down.
You can open the printer by removing the four rubber feet, you'll find a phillips head screw in each tunnel and two more in the battery holder area. A canned air blaster will do the clean-up. Just watch out for the power indicator LED and print head ribbon cable on re-assembly, they don't always go back into place on their own.
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