Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-24 Thread Tony B
It's not something I ever need to do, but if you do a lot of printing on thick paper, I would buy a printer designed around that feature, not a 'multifunction' that, at best, might be jerry-rigged to do it. On Jan 22, 2008 1:37 AM, Alvin Auerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I have an Epson RX700. It has two paper paths, a front feed for regular paper, and a rear feed for thick paper and envelopes. Love it. Stewart At 01:07 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote: Try the Canon PIXMA MP520. It is a multifunction printer which has two paper paths. Really nice machine. db

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Thanks db and Stewart for your suggestions of alternative machines, but those are inkjets. The Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer is a color laser printer which Brother rates at 21 pages per minute, black or color. I've been looking for a color laser multifunction printer for a long

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
All the Color Lasers I know of do not use a straight through pathway. (HP, Brother, Konica, Okidata etc.) Stewart At 08:49 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote: Thanks db and Stewart for your suggestions of alternative machines, but those are inkjets. The Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer is a

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Part of it may be the fact that it has to pass though multiple toners tog et it. I don't know. I do know that the copiers made by many (Cannon and Xerox) do get straight through paths, but they are much more expensive. Stewart At 10:55 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote: That's not good. Straight

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Tony B
It's not valuable to most people. What are you printing so much of that needs to be on really thick paper? It's nothing you can do at Staples? As I recall, most of the printers I've owned won't print when open. Yes, it might be a switch you could easily duck tape, but it seems to me if the

[CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-21 Thread Alvin Auerbach
I'm interested in purchasing a Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer, but I don't like the fact that it (and similar Brother printers) does not have a straight through paper path. However, the back of this printer opens to remove paper jams, and it seems to me that if one could defeat

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-21 Thread db
Try the Canon PIXMA MP520. It is a multifunction printer which has two paper paths. Really nice machine. db Alvin Auerbach wrote: I'm interested in purchasing a Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer, but I don't like the fact that it (and similar Brother printers) does not have a