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