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From: Fearty on 17 Feb 2005 16:00
I'm sorry if this seems a rather dumb question......

In the office where I work I despair at the amount of paper wasted from
printer mess-ups where paper comes out blank or has just a tiny amount of
print on them so I thought I could save waste by re-inserting this paper
back into the laser printer but I got told off as apparently this practise
is not compatible with laser printers or photocopiers.

Is this correct and if so, why? Does the paper receive some sort of
treatment that renders it useless for the purpose of re-using?

Thanks


Stephen


From: usenet on 18 Feb 2005 10:10
Arthur Entlich <artistic(a)telus.net> wrote:
> I print double sided all the time on a single sided printer. The prints
> looks fine and they don't jam. This is done right after the other side
> is printed and the paper is still mildly warm.
>
Come to think of it this mode of use is surely condoned by 'manual
duplex' options on many printers.

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Chris Green
From: Bob Eager on 17 Feb 2005 16:19
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:00:19 UTC, "Fearty" <fear(a)clara.co.ukNOSPAM>
wrote:

> Is this correct and if so, why? Does the paper receive some sort of
> treatment that renders it useless for the purpose of re-using?

It dries out, for a start. Also, the edges inevitably get damaged a bit
so it tends to jam.

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Bob Eager
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From: John Beardmore on 17 Feb 2005 20:28
In message <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-rI1t8NB6qZb6(a)rikki.tavi.co.uk>, Bob Eager
<rde42(a)spamcop.net> writes
>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:00:19 UTC, "Fearty" <fear(a)clara.co.ukNOSPAM>
>wrote:

>> Is this correct and if so, why? Does the paper receive some sort of
>> treatment that renders it useless for the purpose of re-using?
>
>It dries out, for a start. Also, the edges inevitably get damaged a bit
>so it tends to jam.

I use vast amounts of recycled paper for proofing documents and very
seldom have any jams at all even if the paper that's going in is far
from flat. The only significant indicator for jams IME, is crumpling
along the leading edge. Side edges are not really an issue.

Duplexing is more prone to problems, but even that is normally OK, and
if the paper wasn't more or less blank on one side, you wouldn't be
recycling it would you ?


Cheers, J/.
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John Beardmore
From: ato_zee on 18 Feb 2005 02:53

On 18-Feb-2005, John Beardmore <John(a)T4sLtd.co.uk> wrote:

> Not so broadly speaking, there are papers that tend to curl after one
> pass though the printer, and as a result they are more prone to jams
> etc.

Fuser heat takes all the moisture out of the paper. Put a pile
of paper in a dessicator, then try to print, problems. The
electrostatic based print process doesn't like it. Stack the
used paper in a pile for a day, or a bit longer, then the weight
of the pile will flatten it, and it will absorb moisture and
stabilise to room conditions. That said duplex does two
passes, but the machine is built to duplex. That's just my
experience. I once put some paper in a dessicator to protect
it from a damp, celler, environment, printer wasn't happy.
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