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From: elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell)
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Subject: Re: double-sided PS printers?
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 10:40:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 10:40:16 1987
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ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
    Gee Don, all you have to do is turn up the power of the laser
    and stroke the path.  We've got a Telaris printer that regularly
    burns paper into little bits (actually, I think it's the fuser
    that does it).
    
    -Ron

It's the fuser.  Talaris (and QMS) used the Xerox XP-12 marking engine
for their 12 ppm printers.  The XP-12 has one of the more tortuous
paper paths ever invented.  We have a Xerox 2700 that burns paper
fairly often.  In the last incident, the printing sequence ended up as
follows:

	Step 1. Feed two sheets simultaneously, one from each paper
		cassette, and get them stuck halfway fed.

	Step 2. Pour some toner down into the top paper cassette.

	Step 3. Burn the aforementioned pieces of paper in half, so
		that one half falls back out.

	Step 4. Now that things are royally screwed up, signal a paper
		jam.

Fun for everyone.  One thing I like about our new printer is that it
has a *straight* paper path.

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							      Clayton M. Elwell
       The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
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