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Typing Techniques
How do you go about lining up the text that you have typed if you remove the paper from the machine? I mean, is there a trick to this?
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- Uwe
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Re: Typing Techniques
I use the machine's alignment scales that are typically located on either side (or at least one side) of the type point.
Before you remove the paper make sure you note how the type lines up with relation to the scale. Then, when you reinsert the page, make sure that you duplicate this position. You can usually do this by using the machine's variable line spacing feature, which on some models might be a plunger on one of the platen knobs, or the 0 setting on the line space selector. If your machine has neither, you can cheat the paper into position by using the paper release lever and sliding the page manually until it's perfectly lined up.
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Re: Typing Techniques
Another method I use with some of my machines is if it has a hole in the paper support for drawing lines, make a small pencil dot at the top of the page before you start typing, which you can then use to realign the paper if it's been removed.
Depending on the condition of the platen and/or feed rollers, with some of my machines the paper will slowly shift position as I near the bottom of the page, typically one side slipping so the lines are no longer parallel to the starting lines at the top; in this situation, you have to do as Uwe suggests and manually realign the paper.
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- colrehogan
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I like the idea about the dot at the top of the page. But not all of my machines have that kind of paper support on it. I'll have to look at them.
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Re: Typing Techniques
colrehogan wrote:
I like the idea about the dot at the top of the page. But not all of my machines have that kind of paper support on it. I'll have to look at them.
Small holes can be drilled, if absent, or a small triangular file used to make a tiny, neat notch.
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