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No, Laser Carbonless forms do not run
through the printer multiple sheets at a time.
Traditional multi-part forms – the old kind -
are made up of just that: multiple parts.
Usually pin fed, with removable line-holes on
either side, these “normal” multi-part forms are
pulled through impact printing equipment such as
dot matrix printers or daisy wheel printers.
Even these types of printers don’t really
“print” on each part of the form. They print on
the first part, and the other parts are imaged
by the impact of the printer using the
carbonless technology
(to better understand how
carbonless paper generally works, click here).
Still, all of the printing (on the first part)
and imaging (on the subsequent parts) for each
form is done at once when traditional carbonless
forms are being used.
With Laser
Carbonless forms, things work a little
differently. Obviously, a laser printer can
only print one sheet at a time, and since there
is no impact involved, there’s no way to image a
second sheet at the same time that the first one
is being printed. Instead, what happens is
simply that the user prints multiple copies of
the same form, and then collates them after
they’re done being printed.
For example, for a three-part
form, you would program your software to print
three copies of each form, one after the other.
Once they come out, they can be either stapled,
bound or glued into sets
(to learn more about how the Laser Carbonless
forms are glued into sets, click here),
or in many cases, they’re simply used “as is”
without any sort of binding at all. The long
and short of it, though, is that laser
carbonless forms go through the printer one
sheet at a time. |
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