Digital BW, The Print

Glad your laser printer fixed itself. Maybe the bits of coating 
finally wore off. I had a laser printer that appeared to have 
a fatal scratch in the drum or fusing usint, and over time it 
disappeared (of course, I'd already bought a new printer by then...); 
apparently it was actually a glob of something, not a scratch.

I'll hunt around for nice-looking, archival uncoated papers. 
Crane was mentioned here. Some watercolor papers might also work. 
Perhaps there are others as well.

More anon,
David 

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IBM Photo Quality Matte coated (on one side) inkjet 8.5x11 paper 
(very 
inexpensive) that I use to test my inkjet images before proofing 
13x19.

    I keep a stack on the shelf behind my Epson; and when I borrowed 
some 
plain paper from the laser tray to do the Epson head check, then 
returned 
the unused paper to the laser tray, I also picked up an unknown 
number of 
sheets of the coated paper.

    UPDATE: Yesterday I laser-printed postcards (1,000 passes), 
and toward 
the end of the run the squeaking STOPPED! This morning I turned 
the Minolta 
back on, and STILL NO SQUEAK; so hooray!

    But I'm mystified...

Pat

At 11:23 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks for the warning. But, do you happen to know what breed
>of inkjet printer paper this was (the fast-drying, ceramic-coated
>kind or the slow-drying, RC-coated kind)?
>
>- David
>
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>
>David,
>
>Don't use coated inkjet paper!
>
>Several days ago some coated inkjet paper accidently got mixed
>in with my
>letter-size laser-paper and made a mess: The inkjet paper jammed
>before it
>could move entirely out of the paper-tray. And though the print-quality
>of
>my (Minolta Magicolor 2200) laser printer hasn't been affected,
>the printer
>squeaks when it prints. A Minolta techie says that the OPC drum
>may be damaged.
>
>Pat



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