[NTLUG:Discuss] OT printer carrier sheet question

[Mike Hart]

Fred, 
I was basing the smudging on a HP LJ 4P trying to print peel and stick labels from a mac where the paper quality selection seemed to have zero effect on the toner temp or roll through rate, none of the settings affected the temp or speed and all ~30 sheets I tested on failed. 
Did your test pass without worrying about the paper quality, or did you set it and actually detect a difference (long wait for fuser to heat, or the printer seemed to roll at half speed?)

Everyone else, 
I used an HP LJ 4P on my desk for about 2 years. In those 2 years, I put 3 $40 TONER cartridges in it and printed roughly 30,000-60,000 sheets before I put it on someone else's desk to make room for an HP LaserJet 5520C (which also seems to accept toner much more readily than ink). ((: 
.. And to think that all this time I should have been using ink cartridges.. Can you recall snail mail?  
Why did the discussion about ink even land in this thread? 

     On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 12:33 PM, Leroy Tennison <leroy.tennison at verizon.net> wrote:
   

 
On 01/07/2015 11:41 AM, Fred James wrote:
> Greg Edwards wrote:
>> I use an inkjet so this method worked pretty good.  Most of the time 
>> the checks would line up right and stay stuck on the carrier sheet.
>>
>> Greg Edwards
>> http://greg.edwards-tx.us
>>
>> On 1/7/2015 9:45 AM, Mike Hart wrote:
>>> Laser printers heat-from-the-back to fuse the toner onto the paper. 
>>> if you've doubled the thickness of a 20lb sheet of paper, your check 
>>> could have disappearing ink. You may need need to find a paper type 
>>> setting and make it something like 'cover'.
>>>
>>>
>>>      On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 9:21 AM, Greg Edwards 
>>> <greg at edwards-tx.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>  At one time I used Quicken check writer with sheets of checks.  What
>>> they had was a sheet with a sticky strip on the top of the page.  If 
>>> you
>>> had a less than full sheet you stick the first check at the top of the
>>> page so it lined up correctly.  IIRC there was a sticky strip where the
>>> last check (bottom) would get held in place too.
>>>
>>> Greg Edwards
>>> http://greg.edwards-tx.us
>>>
>>> On 1/6/2015 8:53 AM, Fred James wrote:
>>>> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>>>> Doesn't it have an envelope feeder? Can't you use it?  If so I will
>>>>> warn you that Apache OpenOffice has a bug printing #10 envelopes. The
>>>>> trick to get it to work is under Format->Page, you have to change the
>>>>> text direction to "Right-to-left Vertical".  Test with regular paper
>>>>> before wasting check stock.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/05/2015 03:25 PM, Fred James wrote:
>>>>>> OT printer carrier sheet question
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My checks are too small to go through my printer (HP LJ 4M+) on 
>>>>>> their
>>>>>> own.  Does anyone know of a carrier sheet, or other "trick" to get a
>>>>>> small sheet through the printer?
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Fred James
>>>> Leroy Tennison
>>>> Thank you for your reply ... and the tip on the Apache OpenOffice bug,
>>>> which seems to have been carried over into LibreOffice as well ... I
>>>> shall try that out.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, while the printer does have a manual feed with envelope
>>>> guide, the minimum size media is 3.5x6.5 inches, and the checks are
>>>> 2,75x6.25 inches ... too small in each direction.
>>>>
>>>> I am working (as a work around) at developing a carrier out of a sheet
>>>> of 8.5x11 overhead transparency stock ... positioning and holding the
>>>> check in slots cut through the clear stock.  So far I have one long 
>>>> slot
>>>> at the feed end to hold the leading edge of the check, and I am now
>>>> going to add a couple of small diagonal slots to hold the tail end 
>>>> (keep
>>>> it aligned properly ... the single head slot doesn't quite do the
>>>> alignment part.  Not magic, but I hope it works ... more testing 
>>>> ahead.
>>>> Regards
>>>> Fred James
> Greg Edwards
> My ink jet printer uses an ink that remains water soluble ... not good 
> for checks or envelopes, and stuff like that.
> Regards
> Fred James
>
>
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-> My ink jet printer uses an ink that remains water soluble ... not 
good for checks or envelopes, and stuff like that.

With ink jet technology you can almost spend less money buying a new 
printer on sale than buying replacement ink cartridges.  If the current 
ink jet ink is water-soluble then I'd start doing research into 
alternatives.  When you run out of ink then consider your options.


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