Re: Printer troubles.

I vaguely recall error code 8 being a ribbon rewind with some printer.
Could the ribbon have a problem?


----- Original Message -----
From: "L. S. Russell" <leslier@datrek.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, 30 March 2001 23:31
Subject: Re: Printer troubles.


| <shrugging his shoulders>  I don't have any docs, this printer has been
| with the company since the pre-cambrian period.
| If I hold down the second level message button it says 3.
|
| "Schenck, Don" wrote:
| >
| > Isn't "8" a ribbon jam?
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
| > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:07 AM
| > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
| > Subject: Printer troubles.
| >
| > Don't laugh, but I have an IBM 5224 model 2 that is giving me fits.  We
| > only use it once a year and don't have any documentation.
| > Here is the problem: when I send a spool file to the attached outq it
| > will allow me to align TOF and then it will print one line before
| > stopping with a code of 8.  The message on the 400 is no help at all, it
| > just says press Stop/Start... which cause it to print another line and
| > then stop again with the same code.
| >
| > If I knew what this code meant I might be able to fix the problem.  Does
| > anyone know anything about these printers?
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