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Re: Printing USPS post cards on a laser

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From: Ron Natalie
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 16:35
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I can't tell you about the LPS40, but I've run card stock
through an older laserwriter and can share my experiences.
First, it is hopeless to put postcard thickness stock in
the paper tray.  In the Laserwriter the paper makes a very
tight turn coming out of the tray which the cardstock can't
do.  The manual feeder is cranky, but works.  The Laserwriter
II's may be slightly better than this, as the paper from the
tray and the manual feeder follow the same path.

The first problem is that 4 postcards on 8.5 by 11 stock
consume the paper exactly.  This means that you must get
the registration exact, plus, you can't print to the borders
because of the approx half inch margins that the printer won't
print on.  I ended up finding it easier to print 3 up horizontally
to avoid this problem.

As for double sided printing things work OK, but be careful.
Running something through twice faced the same way up causes
problems and jams.

-Ron
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From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: Printing USPS post cards on a laser
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