• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    Can you elaborate on the paper alignment challenge? Why is it difficult to do and why this roll solve the problem?

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      Getting the printer to pick up a single sheet off a stack of .003” thick sheets at a variable depth, and then dealing with variable sized-sheets, rotation, paper jam detection to avoid burning out motors, just to name a few. Things get even more complicated with things like 2-sided printing.

      If it was just one of these at once, it might be pretty approachable, but the classic and convenient 8 1/2 X 11” paper tray that modern printers have is a genuine challenge to manage without lots of careful communication with all the different parts.