I live in Colorado. It's very dry. I use a Lexmark X125 to fax. The
pages INSIST on sticking together when moving through the fax machine.
What can I do to solve this frustrating problem? |
Request for Question Clarification by
rebeccam-ga
on
17 Dec 2002 12:34 PST
bella-aria,
I feel your pain, it has happened to me many times.
Have you tried feeding the pages one at a time buy hand? (It takes a
little timing and coordination, but it has worked for me when all else
failed..)
Another option is to stand by while the pages are feeding and keep a
hold on them such that only one at a time is free to go through. Make
sense?
Is that helpful at all?
Rebeccam-ga
Researcher
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Request for Question Clarification by
vinods-ga
on
17 Dec 2002 12:50 PST
Hi,
Age-old problem, as early as when mechanised printing began. When you
see how printers deal with a ream of papers, you will know how it
works.
Paper is cut from a very large sheet into smaller sheets, like into
sizes of 'A4', legal, etc. When it is done and packed into 'reams',
papers stick to each other after they are packed. This is becuase the
cutting machine holds down one edge hard by a very heavy weighted
metal edge.
The way out is to hold a shaf of papers by the sides and blow against
the edge, and repeat this on all four sides of the sheaf. You will see
the papers separate temporarily. Once this is done, almost any set of
papers will go through any set or rollers, one by one.
I have personally printed upto a 100 sheets of paper in an inkjet
printer with not one print going waste because of this act of blowing
against the edge of a bunch of papers.
Go across to a printer's and you will see what I am talking about.
Those guys do this to large sheets of paper that need to be fed to a
printing device, some as large as a few feet across! You must see them
handle whole reams of paper with their two hands!
If it works for you do let me know!
warm regards
vinods-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
vinods-ga
on
17 Dec 2002 12:52 PST
PS: Dryness should not be the issue. it is usually moisture that holds
paper against each other. thought you should know.
vinods-ga
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Clarification of Question by
bella_aria-ga
on
17 Dec 2002 13:46 PST
I have been feeding the pages one by one. On the last go around which
was an important document, the pages STILL stuck together as I would
feed them separately. I went through this attempt 5 times and finally
called the recipient and apologized for the mess. Asked her to try
and piece together 7 individual pages from 5 separate fax attempts to
get one full set. How embarassing!! I'll try the "blow on the edges"
idea this evening. If it works, I owe you lunch!!
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Clarification of Question by
bella_aria-ga
on
17 Dec 2002 17:20 PST
I tried blowing on all 4 sides of the paper. It didn't seem to make
much difference. Pages 2 would start faxing. Then page 3 would start
about 2 inches below 2. Page 4 would go through. Page 5 would start,
6 would stick behind it 2 inches later, than Page 7, 2 inches behind
6. I tried spraying static guard on the sheet which actually helped
somewhat. But still no good solution yet. I've been faxing for
years. So frustrating! Thanks for your help.
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
17 Dec 2002 21:35 PST
bella_aria...(lovely nick)
Vinods is quite correct, though I would add the following:
I've been in the printing industry, as well as dealing with
printers in (very dry) Phoenix. Dryness CAN cause major
problems because of the considerable increase in static
electricity which occurs in arid environments.
Another alternative to blowing on the edges is to grab the
sheaf of paper by the edges and FAN the pages, as though
you were rifling through a deck of cards. Do this as many
times as needed, on each side, to introduce some air
between the pages. You can also spread the pages before
fanning them, so that the edges separate (how to describe
this?), so that the edges of the paper are angled in the
stack, causing all the pages to slide off-center from each
other. Fanning them then becomes easier, since each page
can be pulled away from the next as the edges are separated.
I hope that makes enough sense to be understood. And I hope
it works for you. Let us know!
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