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Printer Using Cut-Sheet Feeders and
Paper Trays
Cut-sheet feeders use gravity to pull wads of paper into
the printer. These feeders stick up out of the printer and
make it much taller than it needs to be. Avoid these feeders.
Luckily, they are disappearing slowly from the market. Laser
printers have been so successful with the copier machine-like
paper trays that paper trays are starting to appear in dot-matrix
printers.
Paper trays will eventually he the method of choice for
any dot-matrix work. The temporary paper-ejection feature
that advances the paper so that you can tear it off, and
then retracts the paper to the first line will not be needed.
You will not need to park the tractor feed paper. You will
not need to disable the paper-out switch. The big question
really is when does tractor-feed and fanfold paper die?
It does not look as though wide-carriage paper (approximately
11-by-17 inches) will ever be supported by paper trays.
However, demand for wide-carriage printing has decreased
tremendously with the advent of compressed laser fonts.
A choice must be made between using the tractor-feed method
and using paper trays. Even if both methods are possible
in a printer, they usually can-not be installed at the same
time. Only the very high speed, 18-pin dot-matrix printers
(costing approximately 53,000) support tractor feed and
a couple of paper trays at the same time, with software
selecting where the paper comes from.
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