HP97 The journey begins

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

Does the printer try to do anything? With no paper in it pressing the paper feed button should cause the print head to move left about 1/3 of its travel, this is of course assuming that the wires or the button have not broken odd their connectors. if they are not connected correctly the printer will not work properly either. I had one with a marginal PIK that when cold the printhead would barely get off the right margin, but after it was on for a while it would print normally.

You will find lots of tutorials for the card reader, the trick to getting out the cable without damaging it is to slip a piece of stiff plastic in between the contacts and the cable, I use pieces cut from blister packs.

Paul.