[BC] Sage Endec paper feed problem

[Mark Garrett]

Steve:

 

Other than possibly removing and giving the printer a blast of air to make sure that no paper has become stuck in the printer and making sure the rubber parts are clean (maybe a cotton swab in alcohol) there is not much you can do.  

These printers are getting pretty old and the rubber parts are probably hardened.  Most of these printers have been in service 13+ years and were never meant to be serviced.  

Many people hate buying the thermal paper this uses and so the usually attach an old dot matrix printer to the unit.  Or they use a computer program to capture the alerts.  

Either way it may be time to do something temporary till the boxes are mandated obsolete.

 

Mark Garrett, KA9SZX ka9szx at hotmail.com

 
> From: radioranger at comcast.net
> 
> I've got a Sage Endec EAS box with a printer problem. The paper doesn't
> always advance when the printer does a line feed. The mechanism appears to
> be working correctly, as I can see the little "reel type lawnmower" spool
> rotate when I do the manual paper advance routine, but the paper seems to be
> slipping too much and won't completely advance. I wondered if the coating
> on the thermal paper had come off on the feed rollers and made them slippery
> so I tried lightly wetting a piece of regular copy paper with alcohol and
> running it thru the mechanism, but no help. Has anyone else experienced
> this problem, and is there a fix, short of replacing the printer?
> 
> Steve Brown
> Radio Rangers
> Minneapolis 
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