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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: C84 Conversion

2007-05-14 by Stefan Trethan

On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:33:04 +0200, Paul Sturpe <sturpe@...>
wrote:

>
> Can the paper sensor be purely mechanical in nature?


It's usually a little mechanical pivoting plastic lever/flag working a
fork type photointerruptor.
I have taken apart some old dot matrix printers which used direct
reflective photo sensors on the paper, but usually it has a mechanical
lever.

ST

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