This is a late night intrusive thought I had. I feel like it would depend on the printer and type of printer but I’m wondering how messed up it would get.

Edit: Answer below

https://leminal.space/comment/4833795

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
    31·
    10 months ago

    Assuming the paper didn’t just jam immediately:

    You would add a lot of wear and tear to the rollers, depending on the grit of the sandpaper. Which would likely increase paper feed issues long term.

    And ink/toner would likely “stick” to varying levels.

    • aard@kyu.de
      2·
      10 months ago

      For an inkjet printer with paper feed issues pulling it through a few times might actually fix those - the print head should be far enough away from the paper that it will not get damaged, and there shouldn’t be other parts close enough. I’ve prolonged quite a few inkjet printers life in the 90s by just sanding the rollers a bit (in some cases you could even get maintenance kits from the manufacturers - which just would be an overpriced tiny piece of sandpaper).

      In a laser printer I’d be worried about some of the internals, though.