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From: boyko%lamont.LDGO.Columbia.EDU%lamont@UUNET.UU.NET (christina boyko)
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Subject: Re: TI Omni-Loser 2115
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Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 19:18:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 19:18:53 1987
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Summary: TI Onmi-Loser and the 20000 dreams


In article <8710271703.AA04123@brillig.umd.edu>, carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
> Has anybody out there managed to get more than 8000 copies per OPC out of
> this sucker (I know TI calls it an Omni-Laser, not an Omni-Loser, but given
> that their advertised 20,000 copies per OPC seems really to be 8,000, I
> think I'm justified in my appelation)?  If so, how?

   Well we're lucky if we get 6-7000 copies per OPC belt.  When we questioned
 this, TI rushed to explain and even sent out a technical explanation about it.
 It seems what they *REALLY* meant to say was 20000 ROTATIONS of the belt,
 not 20000 copies.  And a single sheet of output may require up to 3 rotations
 depending on what it is...i.e. graphics use more rotations than text. So we
 end up with a considerably smaller number of copies than we were all lead to
 beleive. The service guy that came to do our last repair seemed surprised
 that we seem to get even less copies than they consider normal, but could
 offer no explanation or solution.

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         ---Christina (can you die from eating toner powder?)  Boyko
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   P.S. I've been having difficulty posting to the net ( I don't think the
   are getting out of my system, so if anyone outside of Lamont reads this, 
   please let me know.   -cb