improve printers ability to feed used paper
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From: Mathias Koerber on 18 Mar 2010 03:13 I am trying again to print a larger document doublesided on a one-side inkjet printer (Brother MFC-665CW). The problem is that while it draws in the fresh paper just fine, once I reverse the paper and reinsert it for the reverse page, it draws in two pages at ones on occasion, thus getting the page sequence all wrong. I already 'feather' the re-assembled set of pager. Is there anything else I should (should not) do? Could this be static? Any tricks will be appreciated M
From: Arthur Entlich on 18 Mar 2010 07:33 Other than hand feeding each page, one at a time, I know of no way to absolutely prevent a misfeed or double feed. Further, paper printed on one side already tends to develop a "tooth" from swelling with the ink, and even texture from the ink itself, and so pages tend to get "stuck" together during feeding. Most inkjet printers were never designed for duplex printing. I do believe HP and Canon have some, and you might want to look into them. They print each side of the paper before moving to the next sheet, flipping it over during the printing process. Art If you are interested in issues surrounding e-waste, I invite you to enter the discussion at my blog: http://e-trashtalk.spaces.live.com/ Mathias Koerber wrote: > I am trying again to print a larger document doublesided on a one-side > inkjet printer (Brother MFC-665CW). > > The problem is that while it draws in the fresh paper just fine, once > I reverse the paper and reinsert it for the reverse page, it draws in > two pages at ones on occasion, thus getting the page sequence all > wrong. > > I already 'feather' the re-assembled set of pager. > > Is there anything else I should (should not) do? Could this be static? > Any tricks will be appreciated > > M
From: tinnews on 18 Mar 2010 09:44 Arthur Entlich <e-printerhelp(a)mvps.org> wrote: > Other than hand feeding each page, one at a time, I know of no way to > absolutely prevent a misfeed or double feed. > > Further, paper printed on one side already tends to develop a "tooth" > from swelling with the ink, and even texture from the ink itself, and so > pages tend to get "stuck" together during feeding. > > Most inkjet printers were never designed for duplex printing. I do > believe HP and Canon have some, and you might want to look into them. > They print each side of the paper before moving to the next sheet, > flipping it over during the printing process. > Yes, my HP Officejet 7310 does double sided printing (and even double sided copying!). As you say it prints both sides of each sheet as it goes, it's very slow doing this because it does an ink-drying wait after printing the first side of each sheet. -- Chris Green
From: David Rance on 18 Mar 2010 10:57 On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 wrote: >Arthur Entlich <e-printerhelp(a)mvps.org> wrote: >> Other than hand feeding each page, one at a time, I know of no way to >> absolutely prevent a misfeed or double feed. >> >> Further, paper printed on one side already tends to develop a "tooth" >> from swelling with the ink, and even texture from the ink itself, and so >> pages tend to get "stuck" together during feeding. >> >> Most inkjet printers were never designed for duplex printing. I do >> believe HP and Canon have some, and you might want to look into them. >> They print each side of the paper before moving to the next sheet, >> flipping it over during the printing process. >> >Yes, my HP Officejet 7310 does double sided printing (and even double >sided copying!). As you say it prints both sides of each sheet as it >goes, it's very slow doing this because it does an ink-drying wait >after printing the first side of each sheet. But that time can be adjusted to make the waiting minimal. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK http://rance.org.uk
From: TJ on 18 Mar 2010 16:23
On 03/18/2010 09:44 AM, tinnews(a)isbd.co.uk wrote: > Arthur Entlich<e-printerhelp(a)mvps.org> wrote: >> Other than hand feeding each page, one at a time, I know of no way to >> absolutely prevent a misfeed or double feed. >> >> Further, paper printed on one side already tends to develop a "tooth" >> from swelling with the ink, and even texture from the ink itself, and so >> pages tend to get "stuck" together during feeding. >> >> Most inkjet printers were never designed for duplex printing. I do >> believe HP and Canon have some, and you might want to look into them. >> They print each side of the paper before moving to the next sheet, >> flipping it over during the printing process. >> > Yes, my HP Officejet 7310 does double sided printing (and even double > sided copying!). As you say it prints both sides of each sheet as it > goes, it's very slow doing this because it does an ink-drying wait > after printing the first side of each sheet. > My Officejet 6110 has an optional (at extra cost) duplexer attachment to accomplish that. The same duplexer fits on a number of HP printers, including my Deskjet 5650. It's the only way I've found to prevent the multiple-feed problem. TJ -- There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. |