How many masters are done each time?

[Paco Telescopios]

Hello,

Please, excuse my bad english.
I've using a RP3700 for some months.
I know that sometimes when making a master more than a master sheet is used if the master secuence is interrupted, as when the old master is not ejected ok. Then a blanck master is first done, and then the printed one.

Even when making a master with no fails, you can hear the sound of the old master being ejected, and I've realised that in usually you can hear that more than a single master is being used each time.

Yesterday I checked the master count before and after a master was sended from PC and it resulted that 3 (!) masters where really done for a single one sended.
This is a drama for me because in certain situations, as when printing zines in several colors, the diferrence is huge. I'm in shock

Not sure if this always that way or depends in anything else, as if the drum needs to be inked or the scan plate is being used instead, etc.

Can anybody give me some information?
Is this normal or may I have a missconfiguration?

Thank you

[slimslob]

[jermyth]

Re: How many masters are done each time?

If your RISO is doing idle mode, it will remove the current master, place a blank master, rotate and ink up the drum, remove that master, make the current scan/sent master and print out a proof sheet (two if sent).

The only time I have seen a RISO do three masters is when the sent data is two pages and the driver does not or is not told to stop and print multiple pages before going to the next page.

Good luck.

[Paco Telescopios]

Re: How many masters are done each time?

[Paco Telescopios]

Re: How many masters are done each time?

If your RISO is doing idle mode, it will remove the current master, place a blank master, rotate and ink up the drum, remove that master, make the current scan/sent master and print out a proof sheet (two if sent).

The only time I have seen a RISO do three masters is when the sent data is two pages and the driver does not or is not told to stop and print multiple pages before going to the next page.

Good luck.

Thank you jermyth

Yesterday I checked it again; if idle mode is selected then my machine does three masters when sending a file from the PC (no multiple pages selected). Without idle mode, then a single master is done.
It not takes too many copies to get them well inked (3-10) and I usually keep a lot of used paper for this, so I can live without idle mode. I was terrified with the master waste

Yhank you again