Printer to print wedding invites

thenakedchef

Could anyone recommend a decent quality printer to print wedding invites ourselves?

CL

It depends if the paper you want to use has a sheen finish. I made wedding invitations for myself on a regular HP inkjet and they were fine as the paper was absorbent, but I made invitations for my friend's wedding and the paper had a metallic finish and when printed on a inkjet it smeared, so I had to print them in work on a laserjet.

MX5huggy

Any printer, will do this just fine, but as said its the paper that will make or break it.

thenakedchef

Not a sheen finish, printed on normal card, double sided, although i could probably do this myself if the printer doesnt.

But something below kind of £80 or so that is quite good quality. Dont even know where to start looking or what to look at in terms of printer quality

ciderwithrosie_2

thenakedchef wrote: »

Not a sheen finish, printed on normal card, double sided, although i could probably do this myself if the printer doesnt.

But something below kind of £80 or so that is quite good quality. Dont even know where to start looking or what to look at in terms of printer quality

If you're going to print them, I would type in the names of the people you're inviting individually - nothing worse than seeing a nice wedding invite spoilt by someone's not so great handwriting - not saying your handwriting isn't nice but I work in design so these things I notice.

Thing is the better quality printer you get, like a duplex laserjet one, the toners/inks outprice it for casual home use. What about setting up what you want and taking it to a photocopy/print shop? - most places can do double sided, colour copying on card these days from a disc or memory stick

dizziblonde

CL wrote: »

It depends if the paper you want to use has a sheen finish. I made wedding invitations for myself on a regular HP inkjet and they were fine as the paper was absorbent, but I made invitations for my friend's wedding and the paper had a metallic finish and when printed on a inkjet it smeared, so I had to print them in work on a laserjet.

Mine had sheen finish - I found if I printed them on normal quality they didn't smear, if I printed them on high-quality they DID smear.

Was on a bog standard HP deskjet and they did come out incredibly well - and my printer's pretty abused by heavy overuse!

MX5huggy

Honestly any printer will do. This £30 one would do the job, duplexing, means double sided, to do this just print one side then the next.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hewlett-Packard-CH340B-Deskjet-Printer/dp/B0043XYYG6/ref=sr_1_14?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1333205160&sr=1-14

interstellaflyer

MX5huggy wrote: »

Honestly any printer will do. This £30 one would do the job, duplexing, means double sided, to do this just print one side then the next.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hewlett-Packard-CH340B-Deskjet-Printer/dp/B0043XYYG6/ref=sr_1_14?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1333205160&sr=1-14

That would depend on how many invites, whether colour is used etc, those 301 cartridges don't come with much ink, personaly I'd find out how much a local print shop would charge to print them off a memory stick.

Newly_retired

Could you print on basic paper for an insert, and just have glossy outer cover? Or maybe you could do some DIY decorating with craft bits and bobs?

printisnotdead

I am still impressed with the quality and service you would get with PrintPlace. You should check them out.