On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:33:22PM +0200, Gooijen H wrote:
> Jules wrote:
> Toner consists of hars, pigment and iron particles. In a photocopier
> the combination of temperature and pressure "prints" the toner onto
> the (paper) sheet.
> Your copies get a little sticky at warmer days, and the pressure inside
> the binder is doing the rest.
While all of that is true, there's an additional thing going on there...
Toner has an affinity for adhering to certain materials - one is the vinyl
that 3-ring binders are clad with, the other is toner itself.
It takes much longer for double-sided copies to stick to themselves, but
under a variety of storage conditions, it does happen. Sticking to binder
covers is much quicker, and as someone else here pointed out, ensuring there
is a blank page at the front and back goes a long way to preventing problems.
-ethan
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