Then I poured in the black toner powder from a bottle into the hopper. I also wiped the corona wires to make sure there were no streaks in printing. The platen was a wide, 7-page (8.5”) long flexible metal (shiny) belt. I had to use an alcohol mix to fully clean the printing platen at the start of every shift. Best to stay on top of it and fill one every 5-10 minutes.Īs to maintenance, it was more than just adding toner. 13 minutes of continuous use would empty both trays.
We printed almost everything double-sided. Once the tray lowered to the bottom of its bin, I could open the bin drawer and put new paper in.
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A button on the outside of the paper tray would take it offline and lower it while the other tray continued to feed paper. The 9700 had two main paper trays, each holding 4 reams of 22-lb paper at a time. The others were a Xerox 4090 and we added a Xerox 4135 as the company rapidly grew.
The 9700 was one of 3 laser printers connected to that mainframe. I went through at least one pallet of paper every night. 75% of night shift work was done on my shift, Wed/Thu/Fri. 75% of the printing was on the night shift. We had four 12-hour shifts, each working 3-4 days a week, so there was a printer operator working 24 x 7. That’s 500 pages a ream * 10 reams a carton * 40 cartons a pallet = 200,000 sheets. I had a pallet jack to pull out a new pallet of paper from the locked paper room.
Glad you did the research and the math, so here’s much more detail.
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The mods are somewhat flexible with the rules as long as the OP explains in the comments.