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A: Remove all
paper from the paper tray. Mark an “X” on one side of a single sheet of blank
paper, and put it into the empty tray with the “X” facing up. Print a single
page test document, and when it comes out, see where the printing is. If the
printing is on the side with the “X”, then your printer loads “FACE UP.” If the
printing is on the opposite side from the “X”, then your printer loads “FACE
DOWN.”
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A: Because
different laser printer models load and feed differently, we carry both STRAIGHT
and REVERSE COLLATED carbonless forms.
Imagine you have a deck
of cards (if you actually have a real deck of cards handy, that’s even better),
from which you take the Ace of Spades, the King of Spades and the Queen of
Spades, in that order, and place them face down on top of one another in the
palm of your hand. If you remove the top card (the Queen) and place it face up
on the table, and then put the next card (the King) on top of it, followed by
the last one (the Ace), you are left with a the Ace on top, face up, followed by
the King and finally the Queen. (Note that this is the exact same sequence that
the cards were in while they were face down in your hand.) However, if you do
the exact same thing, but instead place the cards face down on the
table, you’re now left looking at the back side of the Ace. When you flip the
stack over so that you can see the faces of the cards, you now have the Queen on
top, followed by the King, and then the Ace. By placing the cards on the table
face down instead of face up, you have now reversed the original sequence of the
cards.
In the example above, if
you imagine that the Ace is the White sheet of carbonless paper (part 1), the
King is the Canary sheet (part 2), and the Queen is the Pink sheet (part 3), you
can see that in the second example, your forms (cards) end up in the wrong
sequence, with the Pink sheet (Queen) on top instead of the White one (Ace).
Like a playing card, a
sheet of carbonless paper has a distinct front and a back, and documents must be
printed onto the front or “face” of the sheet on order for the forms to image
properly. Therefore, it is important that your paper be loaded such that when
you’ve finished printing, the paper is in the proper sequence. In order to
achieve the proper sequence, you will need either Straight Collated or Reverse
Collated forms, depending upon how your printer
loads
(face
up or face down), how it pulls
(from the
top or bottom
of the tray), and how it outputs (face up or face down). Even if you have the
proper sequence (Straight or Reverse Collation), it is critical that the paper
be
loaded
properly (either
face up or face down), otherwise, your forms will not come out
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