Paper Jam

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A sheet of paper torn from a paper jam
Misinterpreted ECG due to a paper jam in the printer: the second heartbeat appears too short.

Paper jam is a common term since the 1960s in dealing with photocopiers , fax machines , printers and paper processing machines . It describes a malfunction caused by sheets of paper getting stuck in the transport route .

causes

There are many reasons for a paper jam: In some cases, the rubber roller mechanism in the devices transports several sheets instead of one, which separate from each other on the transport path and thus block the machine. In devices that have been in use for a long time, rolls that have become too slippery can be responsible for the fact that paper is not fed in and moved properly. In dot matrix printers with fanfold paper and early fax machines, the paper often rolled around the transport rollers, which also resulted in frequent paper jams.

The first commercially successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, was known for chronic paper jams. One argument in favor of sending and receiving faxes (faxes) using a PC instead of using a fax machine with paper in the 1990s was the elimination of paper jams.

Figurative meaning

Apart from the technical error message, paper jams in transferred form are also used like "processing backlog", ie working with files, applications and office processes. For example, a paper jam occurs when an office suffers from a lack of staff and paper piles up or electronic mail remains unopened without being processed. The New York Times first mentioned a paper jam in 1957 , which concerned the file situation at the US stock exchange. The Times of London quoted a Roman government official in 1966 who, when asked how the use of computers would affect the employment of the 22,000 state administration employees, given the many files full of paper on the shelves, replied that, even if it did Once these paper jams had cleared, there would still be a lot for people to do.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Dommann: Paper jams and information flow: The standardization of library copies . In: Historical Anthropology . tape 16 , no. 1 , 2013, ISSN  2194-4032 , p. 31-54 , doi : 10.7788 / ha.2008.16.1.31 ( degruyter.com [accessed on 11 June 2019]): "The handling of the apparatus was extremely easy, six copies per minute could be produced. The maintenance proved to be far more difficult, paper jams were the order of the day. The reports about the automatic Xerox914 are riddled with anecdotes about its malfunction. "
  2. ↑ Social security reports with remote data transmission - the new guidelines. Social Security, specialist journal of the Austrian Social Insurance, No. 12 of December 20, 1996.
  3. ↑ Michelle Janetschek: Bureaucracy at the university: paper jam . In: The time . February 10, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on August 1, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Financial administration: Millions of citizens in NRW can hope for a tax refund. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ WAll ST. ATTACKS STOCK PAPER JAM; Year's Pilot Operation Will Seek Ways to Cut Heavy Certificate Volume 20 SECURITIES CHOSEN 15 Big Board Member Firms to Participate - Test Will Start Today Bank to Hold Certificates Will Return Shares. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Times, January 31, 1966, Issue 56543, p. 9: Electronic Brains Bring End Of An Era. Retrieved June 12, 2019