Grrr! We hates printers, LJ logins, too!

[thewayne]

I just found that my new Lexmark printer won't feed the thicker Avery 8871 card stock. In the Also Sucking arena, neither will my laser. And yet again in the Also Sucking arena, LJ is trying to prevent me from logging in again!

*sigh* I'm going to bed.

Comments

[fastlearner.livejournal.com]

Gack, not handling cardstock is a game designer cardinal sin. I say go all OfficeSpace on one of them and buy a new one with better paper handling.

My laser printer will handle 12pt stock, which is about 1.5 times the thickness of cardstock, and I think that would be a primary determinant in selecting my next printer (though I just got lucky here).

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Well, the laser was bought before I started designing games. The new one is a Lexmark 7300 multi-function. I need the scanner and I'll need the fax capability, so I'll hold on to it. I'll be needing to buy a photo-quality printer in the not-distant future anyway, so it'll hold.

The 7300 will feed my 5371 card stock, but I'm low on it and wanted to finish off the 8871, so it's no big deal. Fortunatley it's only a 50 card game, so only 5 sheets of paper and it's the only game that I need to print right now. I wanted to reprint Waste of Celluloid, it will have to wait until I get some more 5371 stock, but that works as I don't think I'll need it until July.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Oh, this 8871 stock is pretty thick. It's business card stock, but the cards are on a carrier sheet with a residueless thick stock to carry them through your printer, so you don't have the micro-perferations that 5371 has.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Well, the Lexmark won't even feed the 5371 stock, I've only put 75 pages through it since I got it, so I'll be talking to Walmart about them taking it back. Unfortunately I don't know if they have anything better.

[fastlearner.livejournal.com]

Gah, bummer. Yeah, I'm not sure if those multifunction printers ever have anything resembling a straight-through paper path, and any printer that turns the paper 180 degrees (or even 90 degrees) is pretty much guaranteed not to be able to handle cardstock of any kind. :(

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

My dad has a multi, it's an Epson 6400(?). It actually feeds from the back, I'd guess it's maybe 30-40 degrees above flat. But I have to go with what's available to me up here, I really don't want to buy something like a printer mail-order/online.

At least I got the photos scanned that I needed to scan.