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Article #2842Re: laser printers and heavy paper
From: Vidiot
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 03:45
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 03:45
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In article <245@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn C. Reid) writes:
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<I have not had particularly good luck feeding thick paper of any
<sort through my LaserWriter II NTX (Apple printer). Anything thicker
<than basic 20# bond seems to get stuck.
This sounds familiar.
<I don't expect to be able to put cardboard through the printer, but
<I'd like to be able to feed postcards through, for example, or some
<cover stock of some sort. Has anyone had luck with this? Is there
<any kind of adjustment that can be made to the printer to loosen its
<constraints on paper thickness?
I have the same printer, with the same poor luck.
<The paper always seems to jam as it gets to the fuser, if that helps.
<It's not an exit jam, and the imaging is almost always accomplished
<by the time it jams. But it's usually 100% reproducible (the jam,
<that is).
Geesh, at least your paper gets as far as the fuser. Mine can't even
get past the paper grabber.
<Thanks for any help. Sorry to post to this newsgroup, but I have a
<pretty limited newsfeed, and I don't get comp.laser-printers.jams or
<whatever the appropriate group might be.
I have basically given up. I make masters on white paper and them photocopy
them on a high quality copier.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: laser printers and heavy paper Message-ID: <685@vidiot.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 90 03:45:13 GMT References: <245@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Organization: Vidiot's Hangout Lines: 34