Re: 3d printer first step

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "afogassa" <afogassa@...> wrote:

> -Large motor just returns the gantry, after printing is done gantry
> moves back as if it was taking the paper out of the printer, there is
> a aluminum L shaped there to tell the printer the paper still on it
> till when it is near the big motor then it stops, hit a switch and
> it's back to the beginning.

How does the printer drive itself when printing? Why does this
mechanism not inhibit the return mechanism? Are you just back driving it?

Graham