large paper jamming the 1160

[Arnigassan@aol.com]

This is a "Boy, is my face red" report but it also may
save others some trouble.

I had reported that my 1160 wouldn't print SuperB
and that the paper jammed (with ALL the little red 
lights on the front a-glow).
 
Well it did it again today with ordinary typing paper
after making coffee-grinder noises that just turned
my heart over. And when the Epson software warning
appeared suggesting I clear the inside of the machine
and abort I smugly hit Enter and aborted and repeated
and the machine clunked and stopped again.

I finally paid attention and really listened and realized
there WAS SOMETHING going on inside. So I tipped up
the cover when I tried to reprint and discovered that. . . .

Now that the weather has changed (in Tucson) and we've
left air-conditioning for the incredibly wonderful autumn
natural air the CIS bundle of tubes have a different 
stiffness and, like the shoelace on my sneakers, are 
drooping just enough to touch the leading edge of the 
cartridges as they whip off to the left, upsetting the
delicate balance of the innards and triggering an alarm.
Of course it only required resetting the fuzzy patch a
smidgen to tighten up the droop. . . but that required me
to think rather than assume I knew what was happening.

Sigh. . . life shouldn't be that complicated.

A.

. . . see "The Bath" and "A Long Walk" at . . .
             www.AGdigitalprints.com
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