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From: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
Message-ID: <2241@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 7 May 89 19:52:42 GMT
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In article <747@unify.UUCP> jwc@unify.UUCP (J. William Claypool) writes:
>In article <1103@cantuar.UUCP> greg@cantuar.UUCP (G. Ewing) writes:
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>>is *already* magnetic! I dismantled a toner cartridge once, and found
>>it contained a magnetic roller which the toner particles clung to. As
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>Are you sure that it is not electrostatic rather than magnetic?

I've also pulled a couple of cartridges apart, and observed the magnet and
the toner adhering to it.  I think the magnet is used to insure an even
spread of toner.  

Tom

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