do ALL Brother copiers curl up paper?

[markk]

Read a review in which a Brother MFD really curled up paper coming out of copier. it laid aback down upon cooling , but still wonder if it was machine or if weather conditions were responsible. I suspect machine with convoluted paper path are more prone to curl

 

[corkyg]

Most copiers have a "U" paper path. It is not the path that curls paper - it is the heat from the fuser bar. That is the last thing that the paper goes through - the heat is needed to fuse the toner to the paper. Could be that the Brother is hotter than it needs to be - but that might be also because it can copy onto heavier card stock. As long as it straightens out, it ain't no biggie.

 

[jagec]

when it comes out the top, it should have gone around enough rollers to be pretty straight. Unless you have crappy quality paper, or they have crappy engineers

 

[dkozloski]

Two parameters affect the curling of the paper in a printer or copier, the temperature of the fuser and the moisture content of the paper. Laser printer paper has a much lower moisture content than typewriter or inkjet paper as manufacturered. That is why it is more expensive. Also laser printer paper should be stored under controlled conditions after the package has been opened because it will absorb moistue from the atmosphere under high humidity conditions. When things get bad the paper will wrinkle and pucker to beat the band.

 

[EricW]

Yeah, paper is a really big factor in "curl". When I used to work in a copy center, we used laser printer paper for all our copies (and it worked fine), but when people would hand me their own paper (to save cost) and it was cheap junk, or moist, look out. Half the time the cheaper papers would accordion inside the copiers, because they curled so much, or stuck to one another.

Static electricity is also a killer and seems to effect impromperly stored paper a lot (and the cheaper stuff).

 

[dkozloski]

EricW, you hit the nail on the head. I worked at a newspaper that tried to save mony by outputting proofs on a newspaper page sized laser printer using ordinary commercial paper. The time and paper wasted and parts damaged by paper jams more than offset any savings from the cheaper paper. On top of that the printer cost nearly $20,000 and no part in it was cheap.