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Ricoh Aficio MP1350
Original Handling Capabilities
While scanning speeds and duty volumes may be based upon perfect standard letter sized office grade, laser printer paper, there
is a much wider range of media substrates commonly used and handled in the world every day.
Coated Surfaces Help Printing But Hinder Scanning:
Friction rollers, which grip and guide originals through the document feeder, work very well on standard fibrous office paper. Now consider the account department administra- tor who scans hundreds of
Damaged Originals Can Create Rejections:
Perfectly crisp flat edges are an ideal medium to feed through a document feeder. Now consider the paralegal processing discovery documents complete with ripped out corners left after staple removal or torn punch holes. Some scanner mechanisms are designed to shutdown at the merest detection of imperfection to avoid jamming risks while others battle through with more forgiving fed mechanisms that adjust to less than perfect conditions.
Size Matters:
Most scanner units include multiple friction rollers, which share the workload and maintain a straight feed path. Smaller originals like invoices, business cards, index cards, etc. may only get captured and fed through the scanner by one set of friction rollers, which can result in more crooked
There is a Perfect Weight
The flexibility, resistance, and other physical factors of standard office grade paper make it the ideal medium for high speed scanning. As paper weights get further away from the ideal, such as thin delicate newspaper or heavy purchase warranty registration card, so do the incidences of
BERTL Tests Span Real World Situations:
To see how scanner feed mechanisms handle the wide range of possible media types, BERTL analysts stack the feeder with a wide range of media types and report on how each original type is handled.
Original Handling Results
(scanned at 200dpi monochrome) setting
67 lb. Cover Stock Registration Cards | Fed Successfully | |
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Yellow Pages (newspaper grade media) | Fed Successfully | |
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Magazine with heavy glossy cover and 20 | Fed Successfully | |
lb. glossy coated inside pages | ||
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Carbonless Purchase Order Forms | Fed Successfully | |
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Business Cards | Not Supported | |
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Coated Inkjet Paper | Fed Successfully | |
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4’ x 6’ Index Cards | Fed Successfully | |
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20 lb. bond office paper fed with leading | Fed Successfully | |
edge damage due to staple removal | ||
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Original Feeding Test Observations:.
The reversing duplex document feeder proved to be more reliant to extremes of original scanning than some other units tested recently (with only business cards falling be- low the capabilities of the device), despite its
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