My kingdom for a decent envelope/other printer

[katz]

I just can't seem to hit it good with this one. I've tried printing envelopes with Print Shop, Easy envelopes, OpenOffice & others & no matter what I try the formatting is way off.

I've been through all the settings, and still having problems. Mt latest laser printer, the Magicolor 1600W is no different. I attempt to print a standard #10 business envelope using OpenOffice.

The address boxes are pre-positioned, all you do is fill in the text. Did that, and the first six or so letters is cut off of the return address. I tried a new Brother and had similar problems.

I have an old Epson r220 that worked okay for this (except for feed problems) and a very old HP 3820 that was awesome for envelopes.

Any tips/pointers/suggestions? I do a fair amount of mailing & I need something reliable.

 

[oldtech]

Reduce the font size on the return address portion a point or two...

 

[katz]

That's a good idea, but I'm in the correct font size range. They printed just dandy with my old HP & Epson. (now both defunct).

It just doesn't' make any sense - this should be a no-brainer. I know how to format envelopes, and I've been all through the print settings/options. It's almost like they don't write the driver correctly & the margins are thrown off.

 

[coffee]

I have had this problem with openoffice/libreoffice for some time. What I eventually did was try different envelope sizes to correct this problem. I still dont print alot of envelopes on my printer (Officejet 5510). I recently got a HP 4050 and have found them to work ok. Its an older toner printer but its a real work horse! They are pretty good.

However, I still do not print alot of envelopes and have almost decided to move to stickers and print on them and put them on the envelopes.

coffee

 

[uprighttech]

We print a lot of #10 envelopes from LibreOffice to a newish Brother laser. If I can remember I'll send you the template we use tomorrow. Maybe it'll work for you.

 

[katz]

We print a lot of #10 envelopes from LibreOffice to a newish Brother laser. If I can remember I'll send you the template we use tomorrow. Maybe it'll work for you.

Thanks, I'd like to try that template.

BTW, does your laser printer "wrinkle" the envelopes? Mine does because of the heat - it wrinkles in the area of the glue flap.

 

[uprighttech]

Thanks, I'd like to try that template.

BTW, does your laser printer "wrinkle" the envelopes? Mine does because of the heat - it wrinkles in the area of the glue flap.

We had some really bad wrinkling problems with some envelopes we were using, but I think we've found some that work good for us now. We always print envelopes through the straight paper path. Printing them from the tray and out the top seems to curl them too much. I'll see what envelopes we're using also.

 

[JCS_MN]

I use quickbooks to print envelopes. It works with ms word but everything comes up pre-formatted. Never had an issue.

 

[uprighttech]

Thanks, I'd like to try that template...

I've attached the #10 envelope template we use.

...BTW, does your laser printer "wrinkle" the envelopes? Mine does because of the heat - it wrinkles in the area of the glue flap.

We were using these Redi-Strip envelopes.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006ZH6H4/

We just started using these envelopes from Staples, and they work fine for us as well.
http://www.staples.com/Staples-10-QuickStrip-Security-Tint-Envelopes-500-Box/product_787385

 

[drpcfix]

Here are some things we did;

• Bought a custom black stamp for the return address
• Sent out for envelopes to a print shop
• Have stickers made, use that for return address
• Print the customer address via a label printer

I've had issues like what you describe when trying it myself, found that buying 500-1000 envelopes printed can be worth the time save.

Seems like even if I got some envelopes to print well on our big copier, they would jam the next time I tried

 

[DocGreen]

I used to use Stamps.com, and their built-in envelope printing worked great.