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Printer Stacking Pages in the Right
Order
Paper can come out face-up or face-down. When paper comes
out face-up, page one ends up at the bottom. Putting the
pages in the proper order takes time. Because early lasers
pushed paper out the front, many people learned just to
let it fall on the floor. During the printing process, the
paper was stacked in the proper order. Plastic trays then
were developed to catch the paper.There were other problems
with the early laser printers. The plastic paper-catcher
stuck out of the printer. Because most people placed the
printer on a table for convenient access, the paper tray
usually ended up sticking out into an aisle. This caused
people who were walking by to accidentally break the paper
tray off, or to hurt themselves. Another problem occurred
with the printer when people tried to feed legal paper manually.
They had to insert the paper on the side opposite of the
paper tray. Usually, this was the side of the printer that
was jammed next to the wall. To use it, you had to rotate
the printer so that both sides were accessible. The neat
thing about this early laser was that the top was completely
flat: you could stack books on top of it.
If the laser printer pushes pages out the front upside-down
and you are tired of sorting them, let them fall on the
floor. They will stack in the proper order.
The next generation of lasers defaults to stacking the
pages face-down. This method stacks the pages in the proper
order. Some laser printers can move bins up and down to
collate multiple copies of the same document, much like
a copier machine. The manual feed slot is above the new
paper tray, so it is much easier to use. For normal operation,
the front and top of the printer is used. This means that
you cannot stack books on top of it. The other drawback
is that the paper has to move around more corners. Straight
paper paths are better for thick paper, and have less paper
jam potential.
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