Never did manuscript printing, but did a monthly billing of a thousand plus pages...either two passes OR with NCR paper. The NCR paper had a bad habit of not refolding into the output box, so, more than once, I came in in the morning to an absolute mountain of unfanfolded output paper with hundred page nuggets of refolded paper interspersed. I usually handled the bursting and separating (if NCR), but others had the joy of folding and stuffing.
On the whole I preferred the coarse perf paper for more reliable if also more effortful bursting.
Eventually we went to laser printing, first with a cheapo printer the owner (over my protests) thought would be good enough (the input tray held about 200 sheets of paper, for one!) then with a proper business quality printer (after the cheapo died after a 3000 page run).
I will note that I *never* had a mishap with a toner cartridge, but the owner's pet manager did.
Also...the reek of NCR after a night of printing!
Sometimes it was just worth it to come back to the office after the opera and catch the mid-night NCR printer problems while napping, rather than having to listen to the printer in the morning if it jammed.
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2012-02-10 16:54 (UTC)On the whole I preferred the coarse perf paper for more reliable if also more effortful bursting.
Eventually we went to laser printing, first with a cheapo printer the owner (over my protests) thought would be good enough (the input tray held about 200 sheets of paper, for one!) then with a proper business quality printer (after the cheapo died after a 3000 page run).
I will note that I *never* had a mishap with a toner cartridge, but the owner's pet manager did.
Also...the reek of NCR after a night of printing!
Sometimes it was just worth it to come back to the office after the opera and catch the mid-night NCR printer problems while napping, rather than having to listen to the printer in the morning if it jammed.