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Clarence
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Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:45 pm Post subject:
Printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo paper ? |
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Hi there,
What about printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo paper ?
Is it safe for the printer ?
Best regards,
Clarence |
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Tony
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:11 am Post subject:
Re: Printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo pap |
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Clarence <clarence.miles@aot.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi there,
What about printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo paper ?
Is it safe for the printer ?
Best regards,
Clarence
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Clarence
Generally it is not safe, coated papers have a habit of sticking to the fuser
with expensive repairs to follow. You should only use coated papers that are
specifically recommended for lasers. Same applies to transparencies.
Tony |
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Arthur Entlich
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:
Re: Printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo pap |
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It is not recommended and can be downright bad for the printer, and
there is no advantage.
Some coating used on inkjet papers can:
1: melt or singe when they are heated on the laser fuser
2: can transfer or coat and make slick some parts, like the transfer
drum or belt
3: may not allow the toner to stick properly to the paper and cause the
toner to transfer to the wrong parts of the printer
4: cost a lot more than equivalent laser papers designed for laser/color
laser printing
So even if the paper doesn't cause damage, why bother?
Art
Clarence wrote:
| Quote: | Hi there,
What about printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo paper ?
Is it safe for the printer ?
Best regards,
Clarence |
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Clarence
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject:
Re: Printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo pap |
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Arthur Entlich wrote:
| Quote: | It is not recommended and can be downright bad for the printer, and
there is no advantage.
Some coating used on inkjet papers can:
1: melt or singe when they are heated on the laser fuser
2: can transfer or coat and make slick some parts, like the transfer
drum or belt
3: may not allow the toner to stick properly to the paper and cause the
toner to transfer to the wrong parts of the printer
4: cost a lot more than equivalent laser papers designed for laser/color
laser printing
So even if the paper doesn't cause damage, why bother?
Art
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Thanx Arthur :-) |
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me@privacy.net
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject:
Re: Printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo pap |
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In message <4357e5b5$1_2@news.bluewin.ch>, Clarence
<clarence.miles@aot.com> writes
| Quote: | Hi there,
What about printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo paper ?
Is it safe for the printer ?
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Don't do it. The coating can come off and knacker the printer - or parts
thereof.
Get some proper laser paper. For matt output I quite like Xerox's 100gsm
Colortech, which is readily available in A4 and A3. For glossy I've
used a fair bit of HPs soft glossy paper, Data Copy have recently
brought out a 160gsm glossy laser paper which is quite nice, they have a
similar matt one at IIRC 135 gsm which I have yet to try.
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Timothy |
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Vaskenos
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:
Re: Printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo pap |
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me@privacy.net wrote:
| Quote: | In message <4357e5b5$1_2@news.bluewin.ch>, Clarence
clarence.miles@aot.com> writes
Hi there,
What about printing with a color laser printer on ink jet photo paper ?
Is it safe for the printer ?
Don't do it. The coating can come off and knacker the printer - or parts
thereof.
Get some proper laser paper. For matt output I quite like Xerox's 100gsm
Colortech, which is readily available in A4 and A3. For glossy I've
used a fair bit of HPs soft glossy paper, Data Copy have recently
brought out a 160gsm glossy laser paper which is quite nice, they have a
similar matt one at IIRC 135 gsm which I have yet to try.
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Thx a lot for your help :-)
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Vaskenos |
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