Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!uvm-gen.UUCP!punia From: punia@uvm-gen.UUCP (Card 54...) Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers Subject: Laser printer papers Keywords: paper Message-ID: <8806281344.AA12032@brillig.umd.edu> Date: 10 Jun 88 20:34:04 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: EMBA Computer Facility, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington. Lines: 26 Approved: laser-lovers@brillig.umd.edu 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! -- David T. Punia Voice: 802-656-1915 Compu$erve: 72617,1211 Univ. of Vermont CSEE dept UUCPathalias --> punia@uvm-gen.uucp Burlington, VT 05401-0156 CS/INTERNET ---> punia@uvm.edu UUCPath --> ...!{princeton,harvard,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!dartvax!uvm-gen!punia