>Any suggestions or ideas for identifying the cause? I used to work on copiers and we would see these kinds of defects all the time with various papers. The copier manufactures would call it blow off. I am not sure of the exact cause but I suspect a charge buildup on the paper and as it discharges against "something" fusing rollers guides whatever it blows the toner around. Some things we used to do to minimize it was change the charge voltages (which I dont think you can do on a printer)and toner density you might be able to turn on a toner saver or something to make it less dense. Most of the time its just a paper incompatability with the printer that cant be compensaited for. I dont think that its to much moisture in the paper actually it may be to dry if you get to much moisture you will get large patchy voided areas. Good luck Ken
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Weird (laser) printer problems on certain paper
2008-03-20 by Ken Carlson