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7. IMPORTANT: Using cutting pliers, cut and remove the two plastic ties
securing the paper bail during shipping.
8. IMroRl'ANT: Cut and remove the plastic tie securing the carriage assembly to
the printer chassis.
9. Now, load the printwheel and then the ribbon in the printer.
Instructions
will
be
found in Chapter 3 of the Sprint 3 Maintenance/Training manual, if
you are not familiar with the procedure.
Make sure the printwheel is
completely flat against the metal plate on the carriage.
Make sure the
carriage mechanism is returned to the horizontal position and the "C" button
is clicked-dovm.
Make sure the ribbon cartridge is fully clicked-in
and
the
ribbon is threaded through both guides.
10. Manually slide the print-head carriage from the left side of the printer all
the way to the right, and back again.
Make sure it slides sIOClOthly over the
canplete range.
Make sure that there are no obstructions or foreign objects
ins ide the printer.
Slide the carriage fully to the left.
Now,
return the
top cover of the printer.
Make sure that the line down the center of the
print-hammer lines up, or is further to the left of, the 0 mark on the
printer cover.
4.3.2 Connecting
IMPORTANT:
If
the computer is on, urnnount any diskettes in the drives (you do
not have
to
remove them from the drives), and tum the corrputer off.
1.
Find the 50-line flat ribbon cable caning out from inside the back of the
computer chassis.
Plug the far end of this cable into the socket on
b.~e
right side of the rear of the printer (wnen you are facing the rear of the
printer).
Make sure that the colored edge of the cable is on the left side
of the cable when you are facing the rear of the printer.
(Normally, this
is the only way the connector will go in because of a restraining insert in
the connector.)
If the connector has screws for fastening to the
corresp:mding screw holes in the printer, tighten them dawn snugly.
2.
Find the printer fOwer cable which came in the printer carton.
Plug the 6
pin rrolex connector into the molex socket on the back panel of the canputer.
It can only go in one way.
Press it firmly as far in as it can go.
3.
Insert the other end of this cable into the connector on the left side of
the rear of the printer (when you are facing the rear of the printer).
It
will not go in very far until you start tightening down the screws in the
cable connector.
However, it cannot
be
screwed down at all if you try to
attach it upside down, so that there is no way to make a mista.1<.e.
Tighten
the two screws on the ends of the connector alternately, until the connector
is in as far as it will go.
4.
N:Jw, turn the computer fOwer on again.
N:Jte that the lights on the front
panel of the printer go on.
The Sprint 3 printer in a VIP System does not
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