Gestetner 5490 Operating Guide
11
1. Operation
Print Paper
The following limitations apply:
Non-recommended paper:
• Roughly cut paper
• Paper of different thickness in the same stack
• Envelopes heavier than 85g/m
• Roughly cut paper
• Paper of different thickness in the same stack
• Envelopes heavier than 85g/m
2
, 22 lb.
• Folded, curled, creased, or damaged paper
• Torn paper
• Slippery paper
• Rough paper
• Paper with any kind of coating (such as carbon)
• Short grain paper
• Thin paper that has low stiffness
• Paper that is prone to generate a lot of paper dust
• Grained paper loaded with the direction of the grain perpendicular to the
• Torn paper
• Slippery paper
• Rough paper
• Paper with any kind of coating (such as carbon)
• Short grain paper
• Thin paper that has low stiffness
• Paper that is prone to generate a lot of paper dust
• Grained paper loaded with the direction of the grain perpendicular to the
feed direction
• Certain types of long thin envelopes e.g. international mail envelopes
Paper Size
Paper
Weight
Weight
Metric
Inch
Paper feed tray A3
L, B4 L, A4 L K, B5 L K,
A5
L, B6 L, A6 L, Others (Ver-
tical: 70 - 297mm, Horizontal: 148
- 432mm)
- 432mm)
11"
× 17" L, 8
1
/
2
"
× 14" L,
8
1
/
2
"
× 11" L K, 5
1
/
2
"
× 8
1
/
2
"
L K, Others (Vertical: 2.76" -
11.7", Horizontal: 5.83" - 17")
11.7", Horizontal: 5.83" - 17")
47.1 - 209.3g/
m
m
2
, 12.5 - 55.6
lb