Guinness
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 10:40 AM |
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Epsom / Rar Files
We have an ancient Epsom LQ2070 printer at work, used for printing orders and invoices etc.
It's bust.
We have a spare set of gears for it, but no service manual. I have managed to down load the user manual, but it's rubbish.
I have found a couple of service manuals on the internat, but they are .rar files? I can't seem to get them to open.
Can any techi wizard help me either open the service manuals or offer instruction on changing the gearbox on a printer.
Cheers
Mike
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UncleFista
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 10:54 AM |
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Winrar is free 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
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Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 10:55 AM |
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RAR files are like ZIP files but Winzip or Windows XP can't open them. Download a program called WinRAR to open them up.
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mookaloid
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 11:36 AM |
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As above - I prefer WinRar to winzip myself.
Cheers
Mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Guinness
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 11:37 AM |
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Downloaded WinRar, but every time I try to open the files it says "you need to start extraction from a previous volume"
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Mike
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britishtrident
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 11:45 AM |
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Peazip handles all kinds of archives and its completetly free GPL -- it is available for both Windows and Linux
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
ISTR I had the gear train in bits on one these years back -- fiddly but I got it back together.
If the business really depends on a dot matrix printer for 2 part invoice printing it is worth getting a newer Epson LQ , the models that pass the
paper over the top of the printer are very good.
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Keith Weiland
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 11:51 AM |
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I prefer 7-zip, its really free (unlike winrar) and open source.
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BenB
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 12:56 PM |
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If it's talking about "previous volumes" it means you got a file which has been RARd into numerous segments (usually done to get
round a maximum file size e.g. to split a big file into floppy disc type chunks- old skooool)...
You have to have all the segments in the same directory then open the first one, it will automatically do the rest...
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Guinness
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 01:39 PM |
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Sorted, got the manual from another site. Its 186 pages long, and I think I'd rather re-build a Type 9 gearbox than this one!
Mike
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britishtrident
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| posted on 9/11/07 at 07:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Keith Weiland
I prefer 7-zip, its really free (unlike winrar) and open source.
In the past found 7-Zip really strange to use, PeaZip is a lot more user friendly.
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