Storage Hazards

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Oct 9 13:52:18 2004

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Fred Cisin wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > > Be careful with laser-printed documentation in ring binders too; the
> > > text has a habit of sticking to the underside of the binder's cover for
> > > some reason - stick a blank sheet of paper in there to protect it.
> >
> > I'm sure by now this has been discussed extensively but it seems to me any
> > photocopied or laser printed page tends to stick to what is adjacent to
> > it, which is why manuals of this type should always be stored vertically.
>
> But there is also a chemical reaction (from outgassing of plasticizer?)
> that makes the toner stick to the cover of PVC binders much more than
> to most other substances.

I've had pages stick to other pages, but perhaps this was the print on
each page sticking to the print on the other?

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