More photocopier nerdification

So Jonathan Webb from EBS copiers arrived and cleaned the photocopier.
a service costs £49.50 plus £15.00 every hour? 15 minutes? minute? not sure.....
He was great and gave us a maintenance manual for our lovely ancient machine.

Our Konica 1216 has only done 70,000 copies which is nothing apparently, 1 million is what you might expect.

JW cleaned the 7 or 8 mirrors, he cleaned the bit with 2 wires which carry a high electrical charge and sound like a guitar string.

The blackness returned and we learnt how to keep the black.

So, each time you do a copy a portion of toner is used. The reservoir where the toner lives pushes out a bit of toner( more than for just one copy) ready for the next copy.
Now, if we have photocopied a totally black page, loads of toner would have been used, hence not much left for the next copy, so, the next copy might be a bit pale.
So, if we do totally black pages and used shed loads of toner, we have to trick the reservoir into depositing more toner out into position for the next copy.

We do this by photocopying a white page (a copy done but no toner used) Hence the toner stock builds up ready for next copy.

I'll stop now.

Thankyou.

Photocopy Nerdification

Okay, the mass printing has begun.

It takes 40 mins to do one page 120 times.

it takes approx 3 hours to do a 'fold' that's 4 pages joined together.

It is relaxing apart from when the paper curls and gets stuck.

Does it curl because of that batch of paper's grain?

Heat?

Is there a difference in surface on either side?

Not sure yet.

Kind of concluded that perhaps as the paper is of such poor quality, some parts of this ream/batch could have a rubbish content/rubbish tree/ rubbish pulp? It's a n idea anyway.

Then the photocopier became less black!

Our Konica 1216 is the work horse.

It has the blackest blacks.

I spoke to EBS in Norwich....very helpful.

Perhaps the developer has gone?

Developer looks like toner but is more like iron filings and accepts an electrical charge ( which does something to attaching toner to paper....excuse my vague science)

So, I rang Head Office of Konica, Developer .... we chat....hope is low.....keep asking.

Then Keith Brass at HQ finds a compatible developer in Germany the id number is 003J and it is for the more modern Konica machine 2233 but will work in our Grandaddy 1216.

So we get local engineer to visit, who thinks 1216 may just need a clean.

Brilliant local engineer visits, takes machine apart, gives it a good clean.

tbc

Counting

Today this rubber thimble was my most treasured tool. Counting my way through approx 5000 colour prints.

Re-arranging them into sections rather than chapters.

Each section has 8 folds

The entire Book has 11 sections.

The numbered sections have become the best was to communicate about navigating around the book and printing the book.

Am hatching a plan to try and get colour printing done much cheaper than my ready-carved path is leading me to.

Soon