[48391] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Missing Lines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Sep 7 18:14:01 1999
Message-Id: <199909072213.SAA22627@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: ChiBong Chan <chibong@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-print@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 15:38:24 EDT."
<199909071938.PAA27662@w20-575-33.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:13:46 -0400
> The Test Printer at Fifth floor (W20-575) of student center by the bookshelf
> in the Athena Cluster consistently fails to print specific lines on a page.
> Those lines are just slightly below the middle line of the paper. It appears
> in exactly the same position on every page printed on that printer. It appears
> that it tries to print the stuff on those lines but the printing looks like
> it's out of ink or something. Perhaps a problem with the the drum in the
> printer? I don't know. At least usually those badly printed lines can still be
> made out well enough by eye so it's not a major problem, but it does look bad.
>
> This is the printer info from the upper-left corner of the test page printed:
>
> w20-575-33
> ceres:(stdin)
Thanks for the message, that sounds line a physical problem with hte
printer, not one with the new softwaer, so I'm forwarding your report
to hotline.
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
MIT/IS Athena Server Operations
