To get paper lighted - newspaper, toilet paper, paper napkin, photocopier paper, how the paper comes into contact with the sparks will make all the difference. I have tried this with a MFS and a sparky. No success with a sparklite yet.

Get a small piece of paper about an inch square and align the edge of the paper with the edge of the hacksaw blade. Hold blade and paper horizontal with paper side up between thumb and index finger. Use other hand to strike the MFS/ sparky / magfire down against the edge of the hacksaw blade to create sparks. Do it rapidly and with consistent force so that you create a mass of hot metal which lands on top & under the paper.

Best way to describe it would be how you strike a flint and steel with the char cloth on the flint, the paper being the charcloth, the blade being the flint and the firesteel being the, well, steel....

Newspaper and toilet paper should light pretty quickly, more effort is needed for normal photocopy paper. would be better if you shred it but I can now do it without any shredding of the paper....