Reply to post: Re: One place I worked had a seriously fast line printer

Office junior had one job: Tearing perforated bits off tractor-feed dot matrix printer paper

Diogenes

Re: One place I worked had a seriously fast line printer

At my first job i spent ages getting our bills to print at something close to the rated speed we gave up when we got 197/215. One night it stopped putting paper out. It seems our operators were so adept at changing the paper and the speed at which paper was going through was so fast we ended up with a solid inch of paper fused to the fuser roll; there was another 2 inches wound around that.

Ive been told that roll sat in IBMs world printing VPs office gor many years.

I had to go back to my penultimate version which did 185 ppm and the opetators wete instructed to wait 5 mins before changing boxes of paper (10k sheets fanfold IIRC)

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