8 Oct
2004
8 Oct
'04
9:55 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:33:22PM +0200, Gooijen H wrote:
Jules wrote:
Toner consists of hars, pigment and iron particles. In a photocopier
the combination of temperature and pressure "prints" the toner onto
the (paper) sheet.
Your copies get a little sticky at warmer days, and the pressure inside
the binder is doing the rest.
While all of that is true, there's an additional thing going on there...
Toner has an affinity for adhering to certain materials - one is the vinyl
that 3-ring binders are clad with, the other is toner itself.
It takes much longer for double-sided copies to stick to themselves, but
under a variety of storage conditions, it does happen. Sticking to binder
covers is much quicker, and as someone else here pointed out, ensuring there
is a blank page at the front and back goes a long way to preventing problems.
-ethan
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