Xerox Phaser 3121 - printing on both sides.

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It is not adviced to print on the same side already printed.
The other side should not be a very big problem.

But since the printer uses a maintanance roller that provides the drum and
with this the paper a very low amount of oil. This is minimal. Also the ink
is made of rasin/wax.
These both components will make the rollers of your printer dirty in time
when you print already printed paper.
The effect is minimal, but when i did print a realy large amount almost full
covered papers on the backside i had this problem one time.


"ddtl" <fake@address.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I would like to buy black/while laser printer for home use.
> The main objectives is maintenance costs.
>
> After looking around, I found only one sufficiently cheap
> printer: Xerox Phaser 3121. It's specs look sufficient for
> me, but there are couple of questions I couldn't find an answer
> to:
>
> 1)It is written in printer's manual, that you are not supposed
> to print on pages on which something have already been printed,
> because the ink (or whatever was used for printing) could melt. Does
> that means that it is impossible to print on both sides of a paper?
> For example, if I have a batch of pages to print, I would like to
> print uneven pages first, then put those sheets back to the tray,
> and print even pages, so that those even pages would be printed on
> the other, still unprinted on side.
>
> 2) Reading previous posts to the forum, I have seen that it
> is not advisable to buy a GDI printer, because those printers
> are not portable. Phaser 3121 is such a GDI printer, but it has
> drivers for Linux (which is important to me, because I do a lot
> of work from Linux). Are there any other deficiencies to GDI printers
> except unportability (which does not apply to 3121, because it has
> drivers for other OSs).