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Subject: Laser printer papers
Keywords: paper
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Date: 10 Jun 88 20:34:04 GMT
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This has probably been addressed in this group before, perhaps repeatedly,
but I am not a consistent subscriber, so if I'm covering old ground, accept
my apologies and just mail me the collected responses from the last round,
please.

  I spent a fair bit of time the other day talking to a guy who used to be in
the copier service business, and is now in the laser printer service business.
He did a pretty good job of convincing me that I should be running at least a
xerographic bond paper in our Laserjets.  He presented empirical evidence that
non-copier (read that coarser) papers will wear out the printer rollers much
too quickly, and that vibration caused by the grain of the paper could cause
a white (as opposed to the black, dammit I've scratched the drum) line in
the output.  I buy the argument that the smoother finish gets you a higher
quality print, but is there a difference between a high quality xerographic
paper, and the so called laser paper?  Or is it just a way of selling better
grades of xerographic paper?  I hope this isn't one of those religious wars.

Take it away!

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