Digital BW, The Print

Interesting to see how people have coped with the problem. It only seems to "become" a problem if you are dealing with more than a dozen or so at a time.

Of course you can buy the pre-scored greeting card papers from Red River, but when you discover that over 30 cents a card for paper is too much to handle at the volume you want to make them, then it's time to move from ink jet printing to color laser printing.

I've had great success with the Konica Minolta 2350 and 2550 printers. You can buy them for under $500 with a full set of toner carts (4,500 10% coverage)(the 2350 has been discontinued). Then experiment and find the paper that delivers the results you like the best. I then order the paper through a printer that has a scoring machine, cut and scored to my specifications. Costs me about 10 cents for a 7x10 sheet.

The 2550 laser printer cranks out about 4 cards every two minutes with the "heavy paper setting'.

I did make a custom printer profile with Spyder3 Print, and use Adobe Indesign.

John Nollendorfs