Interstingly I calculate that (using the built in counters) that I have run sonething like 650,000 bits of 80 gsm duplicator paper through RISO 3700 and 1510 series high speed duplicators in the last 12 months.

And yes my hands have been cut about, including cuts under the fingernails Which Hurt ! Normally they just sting.

In my case it is normally a question of suck it clean, and if that dont stop the bleeding apply a bit a tissue paper.

I further calculate that beteween now and 10th June 2004. I will have printed, or been responsible for printing, another 750,000 passes.

Thank God it is difficult to get your hands caught in the roller.

That happened to me once using an old fashioned flat bed printer, I was turning it over by hand to demonstrate to a group of trainees in Canterbury Labour Party how the safety guard worked. Th put my hand in harms way to demonstrate how the safety gaurd worked.

Bad move, some C*** had disconected the gaurd trigger. I had not checked that it was connected and the inevitable happened.

I've still got the scars on my fingers. (It will cost 'Catters a pint for me to show them) The leaflet in the press at the time wass framed, complete with bloodstains, in the print room at the Whitstable Labour Club, as a warning !!!!!

Still, just as well we found out in demonstration mode, otherwise my sex life would have been ruined - Well have you tried catching a sheep with one hand and a hook ????

Gareth