[GreenKeys] M28 printer FIGS-LTRS weirdness

[Keelan Lightfoot]

Nick,

I ran a capture of ITTY:

...
10000 T
11011 FIGURES
01110 :
00100 SPACE
11111 LETTERS
01001 D
...

>From the video I briefly saw, it seemed that the # was being printed after
the colon as a separate impression. In the M28 typebox, space is right
beside the # sign.

What I think I was seeing:

...
10000 T
11011 FIGURES
01110 :
00101 #
00100 SPACE
11111 LETTERS
01001 D
...

Maybe what's happening is that something  is out of whack enough that the
hammer is being operated just as the typebox is sliding  into the blank
spot reserved for spacing, so the hammer strikes the #, then slides off
into the spacing position. It would be interesting to see the slow motion
video of it if you can figure out how to upload it.

You mentioned that this doesn't happen with a period, but the period is in
the same row as the space... Maybe try 0, 8, (, 1, 7 instead?  Something to
do with the distance traveled, maybe?

- Keelan



On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 3:46 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a M28 printer that almost always overstrikes # onto the last FIG in
> a string followed by a SP.
>
> LTRS ABC FIGS 123 LTRS SP DEF
> ABC123 DEF
> The 3 gets an overstrike #.
>
> This typebox has # for FIGS-H
>
> FWIW Unshift On Space is disabled.
>
> For example, if I am printing ITTY news articles, all the commas get
> overstruck.
>
> I am overstruck with puzzlement.
> Nick K4NYW
>
>
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