Aloha Ian
I have had many of those printers with the same problem.
Easy to fix if one is willing to take it apart. I found that it is a
real simple printer to take apart and put back together. I then
took the roller and went to the local hardware store and match the
"O" rings to as close a match as possible. As I remember the "kit"
that has the replacement o-rings ran around $25-35 from Apple or
such. O-rings to match at the store run around 30-65� each. I
picked up several of the different diameter and thickness ones and
tried them on for size when I got home. As I remember I did not go
with the thicker ones. The o-rings that I did take off the
roller were basically totaly gone. Some just crumbled and others
were cracked so bad that I wondered how it even worked. If one has
broken...best to take the printer apart to extract the pieces or
they will cause a jam.
I help with our local Mac Users group here in resurecting
and getting computers and printers set up for the kids at the local
Big Brothers Big Sisters. Those printers are a charm to work on.
Epson printers and head clogs are another matter.
Hope this helps
Steve
>Since the shift to USB printers and the rapid flush-out of serial
>printers from the retail system, we have a growing problem with
>finding printers for 68k and non-PCI Macs. As printers contain a lot
>of moving parts, they're likely to be the first components to fail.
>IMHO, the quickest way to kill off all those older Macs, irrespective
>to their use-by date still being in the dim distant future, will be
>that if you can't print any of your output, they're dog-tucker.
>
>Anyway, I've got two Stylewriter 1200s here, both in perfect nick
>EXCEPT that the rubber bands that feed the paper forward have lost
>their stickiness. They go through the feeding action, but the paper
>just sits there. If I grab the first piece of paper and manual push
>it at the appropriate moment, it reluctantly moves down, settling
>down when the front roller gets a grip on it.
>
>Has anyone figured out a method for restoring the grip of the two
>bands and the O ring on the feed shaft? I've tried lightly sanding
>with emery paper but no luck.
>
>~Ian O
>
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