Apple ImageWriter II - Manual (Page 6)

Releasing a Tractor
Lay down the lead sheet of paper so that the first three pins of the left-margin tractor poke through the
first three pin holes. Don’t worry about the other side of the paper for the moment.
Loading Pin-Feed Paper
Close the left-margin paper clamp over the paper.
Find the pin-feed alignment icon on the back panel of the printer and the alignment notch directly above
it. Slide the tractor until the paper edge matches the icon’s vertical line and the notch.
The Pin-Feed Alignment Icon
With the tractor and paper properly aligned, lock the left-margin tractor in place by pressing its lever into
the down position.
Slide the other (right-margin) tractor so that its top three pins come up through the paper’s first three
holes.
Close the paper clamp and gently slide the tractor as far as necessary to take the slack out of the paper.
Press the right-margin tractor release lever into the down position. Figure 2-15 shows a properly aligned
sheet of pin-feed paper.
Pin-Feed Paper on the Forms Tractor
By the Way: Adjust the tractors only when you change to a paper with a different width. Starting a fresh
stack of pin-feed paper involves only opening the paper clamps, dropping the paper onto the pins, and
closing the clamps.
Set the paper release lever (located next to the platen knob) to the up position for pin feed.
Paper Release Lever
To load the paper into the printer, turn the platen knob clockwise until the leading edge of the paper
comes up under the paper bail.
Important!
With the top edge of the paper under the paper bail, printing will begin approximately one inch from the
top of the paper. You may want to compensate for this in your printing software, which sets a top margin
of its own. Chapter 4 gives some tips on resetting software top margins.
Paper Loaded Under the Paper Bail
Put the back cover on.
When the paper is satisfactorily loaded, jump ahead to the section “Running the ImageWriter II Printer
Self-Test” toward the end of this chapter.
Loading Single Sheets of Paper