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From: wsinkees@wsinti01.info.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing)
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Subject: Re: Stylewriter / Deskwriter
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:27:41 GMT
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jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:
>> [doubt about lifespan of the Styelwriter due to dust settling on the
>> paper in the papertray]

>It wouldn't even matter if dust did settle on the paper from above since
>it is the underside of the paper (as seen when it's in the paper tray)
>that is printed on.

This is not true. The visible side of the paper in the paper tray is the
side that will be printed on. The front feeding slot, however, takes the
paper upside down, the paper makes a U-turn in the printer and always comes
out with the printed side above. (So you can start proofreading while the
file is being printed -- handy with the Stylewriter's speed! :-)

On the other hand, the paper tray is in an almost vertical position, let's
say, 60 degrees or more, which reduces the dust settling by at least a
factor 2. Furthermore, the topmost paper is the one that is being printed
first, so I don't think that this way of gathering dust is very important in
an average non-sleeping, non-corridor house room. (unless the printer is
really gathering dust, of course :-)

		    
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Kees Huizing - Eindhoven Univ of Techn - Dept Math & Comp Sc - The Netherlands
e-mail: wsinkees@win.tue.nl      Phone: +31-40-474120       Fax: +31-40-436685