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Use and Storage of Supplies
Copy Paper
• Copy paper of the types or in the conditions listed below are not recommend-
ed for this copier.
• Folded, curled, creased, or damaged paper
• Torn paper
• Perforated paper
• Paper with conductive or low electrical resistance coating such as carbon
or silver coating
• Thermal paper, art paper
• Thin paper that has low stiffness
• Damp paper
• Wavy paper
• Stapled paper
• Tlanslucent paper
• Never use ink-jet printer paper to prevent failure.
• Use a proper type OHP transparency and set it in correct direction to prevent
failure.
• Fan copy paper and OHP transparencies to get air between the sheets before
loading.
• Do not touch copy paper if your fingers are wet or oily; finger prints may ap-
pear on the copy.
• Load paper with the copy side down in the paper trays. If copies are curled,
try turning the copy paper over in the tray. If there is no improvement,
change to copy paper with less curl.
• When copying on rough surface paper, the copy image may be light.
• When setting paper thinner than 64g/m
2 , 17 lb or translucent paper in the pa-
per trays or bypass trays, set it as shown in the figure below. The paper is di-
vided into the vertical and horizontal types depending on the texture flow
direction. If you set thin paper or translucent paper in the reverse direction, a
paper jam might occur. Since A3, B4, 11"
× 17", and 8 1 /
2
"
× 14" sizes of thin
paper are set in the lengthwise direction in this machine, they must be of the
vertical type.