envelope printer?

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Hi

anyone know of a good color printer for printing envelops whereby i can
stack /load a few envelopes at a time

i've tried a few ink jets but and a few laser's but seems they always
got kinda jammed

so anyone know of a brand that is known for being able to handle it?


thanks
 
ml said:
Hi

anyone know of a good color printer for printing envelops whereby i can
stack /load a few envelopes at a time

i've tried a few ink jets but and a few laser's but seems they always
got kinda jammed

so anyone know of a brand that is known for being able to handle it?


thanks

I would narrow the hunt by limiting my search only to printers that
pass the envelope straight through. All the printers that I have had
where the envelope has to bend in half have jammed on me. The old Canon
450 and 800 pass straight through and work well, but they can only
stack about six or so envelopes. The HP Deskjets and Office Jets don't
work at all for me. I'm not up on newer stuff.
 
Hi

anyone know of a good color printer for printing envelops whereby i can
stack /load a few envelopes at a time

i've tried a few ink jets but and a few laser's but seems they always
got kinda jammed

so anyone know of a brand that is known for being able to handle it?


thanks

My old Canon S900 handled envelopes pretty well, and you could stack
perhaps 10 or so.

My new Canon iP5200 will handle envelopes in the top paper feed, and in
the cassette. They tell you not to put more than five envelopes in the
cassette. I don't know the limit in the top feed, but it should be at
least that many. Since I don't print many envelopes, but it is
convenient, I've put envelopes in my cassette and in the four tests I've
done it worked fine.

(Fry's has the iP5200 on sale this week for $119 minus an additional $20
mail-in rebate. Normal price most places is $149, and at some places
higher.)

Bernie
 
Al Bundy said:
I would narrow the hunt by limiting my search only to printers that
pass the envelope straight through. All the printers that I have had
where the envelope has to bend in half have jammed on me. The old Canon
450 and 800 pass straight through and work well, but they can only
stack about six or so envelopes. The HP Deskjets and Office Jets don't
work at all for me. I'm not up on newer stuff.

thanks all for the responce, now how do i find out which printers have a
straight paper path huh that stumps me, figured they all bend


tnx
 
ml said:
thanks all for the responce, now how do i find out which printers have a
straight paper path huh that stumps me, figured they all bend

I'm a tad confused about the Canon 450 / 800 reference. Could be the
S450 and S800 which are top feed inkjets. I could be wrong. There is
a bend, but not a U turn in those models, and current generation canons
offer either top feeds, or both a top feed and bottom feed.

I can only speak about stacks of 10 envelopes, and from that I can say
the mp760, a discountinued all in one model, did those very well. The
ip5200, a current model, I can only speak about stacks of three, which
it does do very well. I never tried the bottom feed on either for
envelopes, it's supported but the rear feed by it's nature and lack of
a huge bend is geared for it.

Some lasers offer a straight path for things like envelopes, as in
before the U turn after a page is printed there is an additional door
in the rear you can open. But i'd have to hunt up the model numbers.
 
zakezuke said:
I'm a tad confused about the Canon 450 / 800 reference. Could be the
S450 and S800 which are top feed inkjets. I could be wrong. There is
a bend, but not a U turn in those models, and current generation canons
offer either top feeds, or both a top feed and bottom feed.
Yes they are the S450 and S800. I call it straight through because the
bend is so slight. Making a U-turn with an envelope is bad news.
 
Al Bundy said:
Yes they are the S450 and S800. I call it straight through because the
bend is so slight. Making a U-turn with an envelope is bad news.

thanks again to all, i really wanted a laser to start, but aside from
the price, ...i remember the older hp's had a slot you could plug in a
env attachment feeder and they had env trays too, oopening the back ,
never a worry

not sure about the low end lasers (color)

the ink jets might be kinda low cost as long as i could put in a group
of env bunchs of ten would be ok i'll have to see those cannon's
recomended perhaps they might do the trick and i could load the 2nd tray
w/my other stuff pretty neet


thanks all
 
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