11-26-2008, 08:09 PM
How many are you printing?
When my mom's group needed about 100 copies of a 10 page bulletin they thought the printing costs were way too high. I volunteered my ancient HP 5M laser printer if they paid for toner and paper.
The problem it turns out that my paper feeds two sheets of paper on about every 20-40th page. This was a killer when printing a set then turning it over and printing the back since sucking in a blank page meant all the following pages were one page off.
So we printed all the page 1's then put them back in and printed all the page 2's on the back of page 1's. etc. That way if it sucked in a blank page you would end up with a page 1 blank on the back and just reprint that 1 page and not waste anything.
Next year they forked over the printing cost as this took forever (it would have taken a very long time even if the printer was 100% perfect).
When my mom's group needed about 100 copies of a 10 page bulletin they thought the printing costs were way too high. I volunteered my ancient HP 5M laser printer if they paid for toner and paper.
The problem it turns out that my paper feeds two sheets of paper on about every 20-40th page. This was a killer when printing a set then turning it over and printing the back since sucking in a blank page meant all the following pages were one page off.
So we printed all the page 1's then put them back in and printed all the page 2's on the back of page 1's. etc. That way if it sucked in a blank page you would end up with a page 1 blank on the back and just reprint that 1 page and not waste anything.
Next year they forked over the printing cost as this took forever (it would have taken a very long time even if the printer was 100% perfect).