Printing on Letter Headed Paper

[allen10]

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Hi all,

 

Does your office print on letter headed paper that has been printed in-house?

 

If so, what adjustments do you make to the way you print the letter headed paper in the first place and what adjustments do you make to the printer you're printing onto the letter headed paper on?

 

Our letter headed paper is printed in colour on Konica Minolta Bizhub machines and is printed onto by Brother HL-5450DN printers that are in our office. However we experience major ghosting and no matter what settings I adjust on the Brother printers, including a reduce ghosting setting and a low temperature setting, it makes no difference, the letter head is ghosted about half way down the page.

 

I've had a look at the settings you can adjust on the Konica machines, but I can't see anything obvious and I'm no printing expert!

 

IMO they should be writing letters with the letter head on and sending it to print directly to the printer, but apparently they've been doing this for years!

 

I hate printers!

 

Any help is much appreciated.

[Fazza]

Does your office print on letter headed paper that has been printed in-house?

 

Not if they've been printed out using a laser printer as the paper is only designed to go through a laser printer the once and (without getting too technical) the paper comes out of all laser printers slightly curved and putting them back in to a laser printer means they are more prone to jam etc. (the cheaper the paper the great the curl - that's one of the the main reasons for price difference in paper).

 

If they've been printed on using an inkjet then they should be fine going through a laser printer as they paper has not been heated by a fuser unit thus extracting all the moisture from the paper etc. causing the curl.

 

The best way (as you've already said) is to have it in the header and footer of a Word Document and bung it on your Intranet/VLE/Shared Area for everyone to just edit and then print.

[Steve21]

Generally we just print the headings as part of a template (as in same time as the letter etc) unless it's something "special" when it goes out of house.

 

Got a bunch of templates depending what it is we're writing out about

 

Steve

[6Foot2]

Generally we just print the headings as part of a template (as in same time as the letter etc) unless it's something "special" when it goes out of house.

 

Got a bunch of templates depending what it is we're writing out about

 

Steve

 

As above, except for I can't think of an occasion that would go out of house. Excluded from this: Prospectuses, and pamphlets for special occasions.

[Steve21]

As above, except for I can't think of an occasion that would go out of house. Excluded from this: Prospectuses, and pamphlets for special occasions.

 

Aye, it's only the odd thing as you mentioned. But we've had some weird requests before like on silver plastic like paper, White "Inks" etc 99% just with a template

 

Steve

[daveyboy]

Good lord... had this argument a few weeks ago about 'pre' printing letter heads. It was only when I pointed out to them it was costing twice as much did they go down the Template route.................

[Boredguy]

We have some pre-printed paper from our outsources supplier, but otherwise letters are typed onto a template with the header/footer in place and either it gets printed in mono if it's a bulk letter, or via a colour copier if it's a one off.

[elsiegee40]

We have a letterhead template with the relevant text and artwork in the header and footer.

 

It's carefully set up, by me, so the recipient name address typed immediately lines up on a window envelope.

 

When the school had its website and graphics overhauled by a proper design company it just supplied a paper that it assumed we would preprint which is why I ended up doing the word template.

[MatthewL]

So your paying twice for every letter you print, once with the letterhead and then again for the letter. Just setup a word template and be done with it.

 

Also paper isnt designed to go through printers twice without causing issues. The heat affects paper same as you shouldn't put part used sheets of labels through a printer because the glue gets heated up and down and they loose their stickiness.