All joking aside, we did have a print operator once at our Chicago office who almost lost his arm from a paper cut from an IBM 3800 (which used the LARGE rolls of paper and cut and stacked it into letter sized sheets.
You learned to stay away from the incoming paper path. Tom P. PS - You guys also read a lot of "technical material" from some guy named Louis L'Amour. Tom P. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion Javier Perez wrote: >I knew a guy who worked with some sort of IBM >super-printer that was so fast that sometimes the >paper caught fire! >Not sure if that makes me old or youn! >Javier > >Javier > > > We had super fast laser printers. The stuff to be printed was written with a laser on a drum. Then toner was picked up and stayed where the laser wrote stuff. Then the toner was electrostatically transferred to the paper and the static charge on the paper was eliminated. The final stage was the fuser where the toner was pressed, under heat and pressure, into the paper. The drum was electrostatically 'cleaned' and the process started over. It could empty a box of paper, like about 2500 sheets, in less than 15 minutes. Paper never caught fire though. After the fuser it was warm but never on fire. Can you imagine the liability if paper caught fire? Bob * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
