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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: laser printers and heavy paper
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Date: 21 Aug 90 03:45:13 GMT
References: <245@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
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Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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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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