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Thanks, all, for the information. I will further check out the printers
mentioned. What I'm trying to do is print mostly black text, on two sides of
about 800 USPS standard 3.5 x 5.5 postcards. My present printers will do the
job, but my old Lexmark Z52 inkjet (which used to do this better than it
does now for some reason--I tried cleaning the rollers with alcohol and it
didn't help) can print a large number of these cards really quickly, but
every once in a while it can't grab a card, and "prints" on thin air, and I
have to reset the whole thing, finding the missed name and address, a real
nuisance. My regular printer, an hp 9100 series all in one, takes about 8
seconds to print each card (it takes that time just to sit and 'think' about
what to do in between printing each card--that delay makes me nuts!!), tech
support not able to suggest a workaround.
So I'm looking for an inexpensive little printer to replace the Z52,
dedicated to just one task, churning out post cards quickly and without
jams!
"measekite" <measekite@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Ron Cohen wrote:
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>>Any of the Canon printers I've used can handle small pieces such as post
>>cards. My Lexmark E312 laser will also handle that size without a problem.
>>I do things a little differently than most users and to me it seems
>>easier. For nearly all my printing I use Microsoft Publisher, but any
>>other page layout application would be just as effective. Since the
>>printer default is 8.5 x 11 that's how I set up my document, which is the
>>default setting. On the Canon inkjets I've used, the paper guides are a
>>fixed left margin with an adjustable guide that pushes the paper to that
>>margin. A 3.5 x 5.5 card, envelope, label or any item of a size other than
>>letter size, is only an area on what the printer thinks is a full sheet
>>and as such it would start printing in the upper left hand corner. That's
>>where I position the text or graphics. On the Lexmark laser, the paper
>>guides center the item so I have to set up the document to print in the
>>center of the paper. The point I'm making is that the printer doesn't know
>>the difference between a post card and a full sheet. Just set up the
>>documents to conform to where the paper is fed into the printer. I know
>>this will also provoke some controversy, but I have Canon s820, i950 and
>>iP4000 models. If text printing is the predominate use for this printer
>>I'd actually recommend either the s820 or i950 over the iP4000. Those two
>>models are out of date, but the i960 is the successor to the i950. Both of
>>these printers and the i960 which Burt mentioned are classified as photo
>>printers with 6 ink tanks, but I get better text printing on them than
>>with the iP4000 which has 4 tanks plus a pigmented black. The iP4000 is a
>>general purpose printer, but to me it prints better photos, but not text.
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> I do not agree with that. One nice thing about the Canon pigmented black
> is you can use a highlighter on the ink after about 10 minutes and it does
> not smear.
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>> At this time from a cost and effectiveness standpoint I'd go with Burt's
>> suggestion and get the i960. If you are only printing black, then an
>> inexpensive laser would also be a printer to look at. The only drawback
>> is that due to inadequate fusing temperatures on some lasers, the toner
>> on thicker stock sometimes doesn't fuse into the paper and can be rubbed
>> or scrapped off.
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