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Table 5-7. Printer Mechanism Unit Repair
Problem
Symptom
Cause
Checkpoint
Solution
Carriage motor
The carriage
Foreign substances
Move the timing belt
Remove any
fore-
does not operate.
motor does not
are lodged in the
manually and check if
ign substances.
operate at all at
gears or
the carriage motor
power ON.
mechanism.
rotates.
The carriage
mo-
Measure the coil
resis-
Replace the
car-
ter is defective.
tance of the motor.
riage
motor.
. Resistance value:
Approx. 41.50
k
7%
(25”C)
Carriage does not
The carriage
Defective belt
driv-
Check for broken or
● Replace the
operate normally
motor rotates,
en pulley
assem-
worn pulleys.
belt driven
pul-
at power ON.
but the carriage
bly,
or belt driving
Iey
assembly.
(When the power does not move.
pulley on the shaft
● Replace the
is turned on with
of the carriage
carriage motor.
the carriage
manu-
motor.
ally moved to its
The timing belt is
cenTer
position.)
Checkthat timing belt is
Reinsert the
tim-
defective.
inserted correctly into
ing
belt.
the bottom of the
carriage.
Check if the timing belt
Replace the
tim-
is broken.
ing
belt.
The carriage Carriage
movs-
Check if the carriage Clean and
moves left
ment is not
moves smoothly when it
lubricate.
slightly and
smooth.
is moved manually.
stops.
Check if the tension of
Replace the belt
the timing belt is too
tension spring.
high.
Buzzer rings 5
The home position Use an oscilloscope to
Replace the
times.
sensor is
check the output home position
defective.
waveform.
sensor.
Printing is not per-
The carriage
The common Check the connector for
. Replace the
formed in
Self- moves, but wires of the head
the common wires of the
printhead
Test.
printing is not
cable are
head cable.
cable.
performed at
disconnected.
● Replace the
all.
The contact of the Check the connector
con-
printhead.
head cable con-
tinuity of the head cable.
nectors is poor.
The common
Check the continuity of
wires of the head the common wires in the
cable are
head cable.
disconnected.
Printing stops
The paper guide Verify that the paper
Reset the paper
before the end plate is not in the
guide plate is mounted in
guide plate.
of a page. right postion. the right position.
The paper guide is
Verify that the paper
Replace the
pa-
weak. guide is effective.
per guide plate.
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