Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve

"R.P.McMurphy" wrote in message
...
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in
colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into
getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on
card. The card needs to be of post card thickness really or they will
feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out there i.e. printing firms
or printers known to print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve

a cheap Lexmark inkjet will print in colour on card for about £30 just make
sure the printer is a top feed, or failing that buy coloured card and print
in black over them

"R.P.McMurphy" wrote in message
...
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in
colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into
getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on
card. The card needs to be of post card thickness really or they will
feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out there i.e. printing firms
or printers known to print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve


Most laser printers will print on card but you might have to feed each sheet
manually if the card is too thick.

I use a Xerox Phaser 8400 colour laser to print on card and it works fine.

Cheers - ETV

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:47:51 +0100, "R.P.McMurphy"
wrote:

Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve


Print on to sticky labels then stick the labels to card .You'll need a
guillotine tho'


Stuart

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:47:51 +0100, "R.P.McMurphy"
wrote:

Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve

My Canon IP5000 will print on reasonable thickness.
The thing to look for is a straight through path for the card.

For example my printer has a bottom tray that will bend the paper
around a roller and back out again. Card in this would wreck the
machine. The top back feeder is just slightly angled and the card only
slightly bent for printing.

As someone else said a simple printer is a few pounds and check the
feed goes almost straight through.

In message ,
R.P.McMurphy writes
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Get appropriately sized Avery labels (or generic ones), print the
labels, stick on appropriately sized cards

certainly a reasonably priced work around

--
geoff

R.P.McMurphy wrote:

Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

I have used several printers over the years and I have only found one
that baulked at printing on card. Mind you, the card was _very_ thick
though. All photo printers accept card up to about 300 grams which
should be adequate for your purpose.

For a colour laser printer that will cost about £200-00 I would suggest
you find your local small print shop and ask them how they want the data
presented to them and how much it would cost for a print run that will
cover 200 post card sized pieces. In the past, I have created a flier
for the local Scouts and asked the print shop to produce it on their
computer, as they use Page Maker and I was not prepared to learn it just
for a small one off run.

You could always have the cards printed on A4 card and cut them out
yourself.

HTH

Dave

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:27:14 GMT, raden wrote:

In message ,
R.P.McMurphy writes
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Get appropriately sized Avery labels (or generic ones), print the
labels, stick on appropriately sized cards

certainly a reasonably priced work around

Maybe there's a supermarket coin-op machine near him that can print
cards like that.

DG

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:46:07 +0100, Dave
wrote:


For a colour laser printer that will cost about £200-00 I would suggest
you find your local small print shop and ask them how they want the data
presented to them and how much it would cost for a print run that will
cover 200 post card sized pieces. In the past, I have created a flier
for the local Scouts and asked the print shop to produce it on their
computer, as they use Page Maker and I was not prepared to learn it just
for a small one off run.

You could always have the cards printed on A4 card and cut them out
yourself.


He could prepare his artwork as a jpg file and print it on a digital
photo workstation at a supermarket.

DG

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:47:51 +0100, "R.P.McMurphy"
wrote:

Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve



If these are going to get a lot of continuous use, then printing onto
paper and laminating them could be a good solution.

Laminating machines and consumables are pretty inexpensive.


--

..andy

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
R.P.McMurphy wrote:

Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job
of printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and
in colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked
into getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if they can
print on card. The card needs to be of post card thickness really or
they will feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out there i.e.
printing firms or printers known to print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve

Many colour inkjet printers will accept card provided it isn't too thick -
maybe up to 250g/sm. Some have a special slot which provides a straight path
without having to wrap round a roller.

Are these things going to be subjected to the weather? The problem with
using an inkjet printer is that the ink will run if it gets wet.

I would be inclined to print them on good quality paper, and then laminate
them. That avoids having to print on card, provides the necessary rigidity -
and makes them reasonably weather-proof. You should be able to print 3 on an
A4 sheet, then laminate it - and finally cut it into 3 postcard-sized
pieces.
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But stupid prices for the ink!

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M Millar

"Mr Fixit" wrote in message
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"R.P.McMurphy" wrote in message
...
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in
colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into
getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on
card. The card needs to be of post card thickness really or they will
feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out there i.e. printing firms
or printers known to print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve

a cheap Lexmark inkjet will print in colour on card for about £30 just
make sure the printer is a top feed, or failing that buy coloured card and
print in black over them

In message , SantaUK
writes
But stupid prices for the ink!

Learn how to post please ...




--
geoff

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:50:56 +0100, Derek ^
wrote:

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:46:07 +0100, Dave
wrote:


For a colour laser printer that will cost about £200-00 I would suggest
you find your local small print shop and ask them how they want the data
presented to them and how much it would cost for a print run that will
cover 200 post card sized pieces. In the past, I have created a flier
for the local Scouts and asked the print shop to produce it on their
computer, as they use Page Maker and I was not prepared to learn it just
for a small one off run.

You could always have the cards printed on A4 card and cut them out
yourself.


He could prepare his artwork as a jpg file and print it on a digital
photo workstation at a supermarket.

DG

That's a good idea, I was thinking of doing that using Bonusprint for
business cards. Full colour, glossy, inexpensive. Just a little
careful cutting involved.
--
Regards,
Mike Halmarack

Drop the (EGG) to email me.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:23:46 UTC, "Roger Mills"
wrote:

I would be inclined to print them on good quality paper, and then laminate
them. That avoids having to print on card, provides the necessary rigidity -
and makes them reasonably weather-proof.

That was going to be my suggestion.

You should be able to print 3 on an
A4 sheet, then laminate it - and finally cut it into 3 postcard-sized
pieces.

No...print 3 on an A4 sheet, cut into 3 postcard-sized pieces, and
laminate. You want a laminate-only border all round (a) to keep it
waterproof (b) because the only real adherence is laminate-to-laminate.
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
raden wrote:

In message , SantaUK
writes
But stupid prices for the ink!

Learn how to post please ...


He's obviously looking down on the message from the top of the chimney! g
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Eric The Viking wrote:

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the
job of printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size
and in colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have
looked into getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if
they can print on card. The card needs to be of post card thickness
really or they will feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out
there i.e. printing firms or printers known to print on card ok?

Don't bother with DIY. Go to
http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/vp/ns/sp...ion&dng=102200

250 full colour postacrds for £34:99, pick from dozens of ready made
templates or upload your own logo.

Used these people for years - you can't go wrong with them.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

R.P.McMurphy mumbled

Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job
of printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and
in colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked
into getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if they can
print on card. The card needs to be of post card thickness really or
they will feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out there i.e.
printing firms or printers known to print on card ok?

Print them on normal paper and laminate them


--
zaax

R.P.McMurphy wrote:
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

The best solution for printing on card stock is a Xerox Phaser. You can
expect to shell out a few hundred to a thousand for one of these
printers. On the good side it produces excellent quality photographic
reproduction on plain paper and card and Xerox used to demonstrate the
printers printing onto metal, card and even toilet paper.

If you can't run to that, then the Epson 2100/2400 series of printers
have a stright through paper path and can print on very heavy material.
I print folders for a client using a 2100 and the paper is 320gsm folded
in half and the printer copes fine. I use the "CD" setting designed
printing on CD to get the paper into the printer, line it up with
printhead, close the paper handling lever to its heavy material setting
and print - problem free. Cost of printer was about £300 IIRC.

Alternatively print on paper and then laminate it to make it more rigid
and durable.

"SantaUK" wrote in message
...
But stupid prices for the ink!

Only if you buy originals. This is a DIY group, so the obvious solution is a
refill kit, which costs a few pounds per refill.

http://www.inktecshop.co.uk/acatalog...artridges.html

Colin Bignell

"R.P.McMurphy" wrote in message
...
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in
colour.

You can get A4 sized sheets that contain a number of microperforated
postcards, which is generally easier than trying to print onto individual
postcards.

my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card.

Mine works quite happily on 210gm/m, but it is an office model printer. As
others have said, the important thing is a straight through paper path.
Thicker materials do not like going around tight bends. Laser has the
advantange over inkjet in that the ink will not run if it gets wet, for
example due to condensation inside the car.

The card needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to
flimsy. Is there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or
printers known to print on card ok?

Almost any local print company will do a good job for you, but I am not sure
that a 200 piece colour run is going to be economic. However, if the passes
are only required for one event and you will want more passes for other
events, an option would be a much larger print run in full colour, with
event specific information added, as required, on your monochrome laser
printer.

If the passes are intended to be for permanent use, then laminating, as
suggested by others, would be a better option. It does, however, add to the
cost, so, depending upon club finances, it may not be suitable for ephemeral
items. The Brother Coollaminator has the option of a self adhesive laminate,
which I use a lot for making notices. If you feed the paper in face down,
you can stick the laminate on the inside of a window, for it to be read from
the outside.

Colin Bignell

R.P.McMurphy wrote:

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Most mono lasers will top out at about 160gsm and that is not really
that stiff. Some of the colour ones will do better but are a fair bit
more expensive. Inkjets will often handle photo paper at up to 280gsm
which probably is stiff enough for what you want.

A Canon pixmar 4200 is pretty flexible on paper handling and is cheap to
re ink as well. I would suggest avoiding the low end ink jets as the
running costs are silly.

You may find it cheaper to take the job to a local print shop however.

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Dave wrote:

computer, as they use Page Maker and I was not prepared to learn it just
for a small one off run.

Lots of places will take camera ready copy as a PDF these days. (in fact
much of the print industry uses PDF for final delivery of content)


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John.

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M Millar

"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
raden wrote:

In message , SantaUK
writes
But stupid prices for the ink!

Learn how to post please ...


He's obviously looking down on the message from the top of the chimney!
g
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In article , SantaUK
wrote:

But stupid prices for the ink!

What are? You seem not to have provided us any context before your comment.

--
AJL

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Bob Eager wrote:


You should be able to print 3 on an
A4 sheet, then laminate it - and finally cut it into 3 postcard-sized
pieces.

No...print 3 on an A4 sheet, cut into 3 postcard-sized pieces, and
laminate. You want a laminate-only border all round (a) to keep it
waterproof (b) because the only real adherence is
laminate-to-laminate.

Yes, that makes sense. Having cut out the 3 postcard sized pieces from the
A4 sheet, you can put them all inside an A4 laminator pouch with spaces
between them so as to have a laminated border when finally trimmed. This is
likely to be more economical than using postcard-sized laminator pouches -
even if you can get them.
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:08:59 UTC, "Roger Mills"
wrote:

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Bob Eager wrote:


You should be able to print 3 on an
A4 sheet, then laminate it - and finally cut it into 3 postcard-sized
pieces.

No...print 3 on an A4 sheet, cut into 3 postcard-sized pieces, and
laminate. You want a laminate-only border all round (a) to keep it
waterproof (b) because the only real adherence is
laminate-to-laminate.

Yes, that makes sense. Having cut out the 3 postcard sized pieces from the
A4 sheet, you can put them all inside an A4 laminator pouch with spaces
between them so as to have a laminated border when finally trimmed. This is
likely to be more economical than using postcard-sized laminator pouches -
even if you can get them.

But beware the sharp corners after cutting...round them off!
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:

In article , SantaUK
wrote:

But stupid prices for the ink!

What are? You seem not to have provided us any context before your
comment.

He did, actually - but he top posted. Your news client probably stripped out
the previous message, thinking there were 57 lines of signature!
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Mr Fixit wrote:
"R.P.McMurphy" wrote in message
...
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the
job of printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size
and in colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have
looked into getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if
they can print on card. The card needs to be of post card thickness
really or they will feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out
there i.e. printing firms or printers known to print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve

a cheap Lexmark inkjet will print in colour on card for about £30
just make sure the printer is a top feed, or failing that buy
coloured card and print in black over them

oops! and pay quite a bit for a new head in six months.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

R.P.McMurphy wrote:
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job
of printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and
in colour. my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked
into getting a colour laser printer but they don't say if they can
print on card. The card needs to be of post card thickness really or
they will feel to flimsy. Is there any other options out there i.e.
printing firms or printers known to print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve

Buy a cheap colour printer,preferably where the cartridge can be refilled.
Then go to a stationers and buy sticky back lables postcard size and stick
them to the post card after printed the details on.
--
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In message , SantaUK
writes
;-))

It's very simple

everything which appears below the dash dash space appears as your
signature which is why it's called a sig separator

.... which means that it gets snipped from subsequent posts

learn to ****ing post

--
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In message , Roger Mills
writes
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:

In article , SantaUK
wrote:

But stupid prices for the ink!

What are? You seem not to have provided us any context before your
comment.

He did, actually - but he top posted. Your news client

Not the news client's fault - someone else without a clue as to what a
sig sep does


probably stripped out
the previous message, thinking there were 57 lines of signature!

--
geoff

www.vistaprint.co.uk/catalogue2006 will do 50 full colour printed
postcards for free, all you pay is the postage.

Get three other committee members to order 50 cards each and
bobsherunkle!

Otherwise, order the 50 free ones and if you are satisfied order 150
more.

Shokk

edit: They actually offer 100 postcards for free! Even better!

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
raden wrote:

In message , Roger Mills
writes
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:

In article , SantaUK
wrote:

But stupid prices for the ink!

What are? You seem not to have provided us any context before your
comment.

He did, actually - but he top posted. Your news client

Not the news client's fault - someone else without a clue as to what a
sig sep does


probably stripped out
the previous message, thinking there were 57 lines of signature!

I wasn't attributing blame - but was simply explaining what had happened.

The news client did what it was supposed to do - it was the top post with a
sig sep immediately under it which casused the problem.

[I hope you're not suggesting that *I* don't know what a sig sep does!]
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Derek ^ wrote:


He could prepare his artwork as a jpg file and print it on a digital
photo workstation at a supermarket.

I quite like that idea, but what is the difference between postcard and
four by six? At four by six, they go down to 7 and a half pence for over
100.

Dave

R.P.McMurphy wrote:
Hey all,

i am a new committee member of a car club and have been given the job of
printing off 200 car passes. they will be of post card size and in colour.
my laser printer only prints in monotone, i have looked into getting a
colour laser printer but they don't say if they can print on card. The card
needs to be of post card thickness really or they will feel to flimsy. Is
there any other options out there i.e. printing firms or printers known to
print on card ok?

Cheers

Steve


Fr short runs, find a print shop with a color laser - these will print
up to a reasonable thickness of card. Otherwisee its going to be a
couple of hundred quid to set up for 'real printing'