Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucsd!sdcc6!empyrean!hopper From: hopper@empyrean.ucsd.edu (Steve Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: reusing paper in Laserwriter? Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 21:50:35 GMT References: Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 22 It seems the older lazerwriters and clones (talaris etc.) have no problems with recycled paper. We have lazerwriter II NTs that will jam almost everytime using either recycled or xerox paper! Haven't noticed any problems with residue toner on rollers etc. Steve >I have heard that running paper through a second time to use both >sides is a bad idea, in that some substance (maybe just the ink, maybe >something else) on the paper from a first run-through would leave a >residue on various rollers and such. However, this is merely a vague >past memory; I can't point to any documentation of this. >I *can* say from experience that, unless you take great pains to make >sure that the recycled paper is put into the paper tray *just* so, >you'll have noticeably more frequent paper jams, due to slight >misalignments (rarer when putting in paper straight from the box). >-- >R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu