Envelope printer suggestions?

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu Jul 19 15:31:30 PDT 2007


With neither thought nor caution, Jay Ashworth blurted:
> 
> In my experience, laser printers shouldn't be plugged into *UPSs*,
> because the motor and heater spikes can damage the inverter output
> transistors.  You might assume that transfer (rather than continuous)
> UPSs wouldn't have a problem with this, but we have a little teeny
> laser in our office plugged into a 3kVa APC, and that UPS *still* trips
> on-line when the printer comes out of sleep.
> 
> Surge suppressors are entirely another matter, but I would bet that
> 'They' meant UPSs.

Hmm.  I'll bow to your firsthand experience.  The last time I directly
touched a laser printer, we directly plugged them into walls and hardly
anyone had UPSs.

I wouldn't have expected issues, but apparently you know more than I on
this one.

mark->
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