colour laser printers that can be manually fed 1M long paper

londonTiger

We print long 1M x 15cm signs for promotional purposes regularly.

I find a very cheap and effective way to do this using the CISS system using the injet printer (pay just £10 for 1 LITRE of ink, works extremely reliably - almost never have to clean nozzle as it works great).

Getting the same banners printed at a professional printer costs £12 for 1 banner. I'm sure I can cut costs rapidly by doing it inhouse and using generic toner refills.

However we might need a laser as inkjet does not match colour reliably. I am looking for a cheap colour laser printer that can be manually fed 15cm width sheets that are 1M long. The paper size would need to be set in the printer setup. I'm not sure if laser printers have that limitations - but in my injet I can pretty much set the paper up to 10M long. :rotfl:

John_Gray

I have never even heard of a laser printer which would do what you want, since the demand for that function must be very close to zero!

londonTiger

I think a laser printer that has maual feed tray would do that. If you have recommendations for laser printer that's cheap to buy and cheap to run that has a manual feed tray - throw the suggestions. I'll look up technical specs on their manufacturers site and look up max paper size.

There is no reason for a manufacturer to limit the length of the page to a4 - width is understandable due to physical limitations but length could be limitless.

I didn't think that a inkjet would print 21cm x1m strips either - but I just happened to have some large a0 card around, cut it up to 15cm wide and set the paper size accordingly and managed to pull it off. More out of necessity because printing companies take a bit of time to turnaround and I needed to have these banners for Monday morning.

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

I can't help with the problem but I just had to look at the thread when I saw the title. I thought you were using one mile long paper but I guess you mean one metre. :eek:

John_Gray

londonTiger wrote: »

There is no reason for a manufacturer to limit the length of the page to a4 - width is understandable due to physical limitations but length could be limitless.

You may well be limited by the printer drivers, which support only certain paper sizes, and possibly by the program which produces the banners (ditto).

Almost all printers have a manual feed function, but whether they would reliably take up what is, in effect, an extremely long sheet of paper without skewing it slightly, is unlikely IMHO...

RobTang

londonTiger wrote: »

However we might need a laser as inkjet does not match colour reliably.

Lasers are not know for their colour quality, in fact I'm pretty sure you need a very very high end colour laser to compete with a budget inkjet on colour reproduction.

S0litaire

It comes down to how much you're willing to spend?

Also how many banners do you need per year?

If it's over 100 then you may as well look into a Good quality Poster/Banner Printer

At the expensive desktop end there's something like this :
HP DesignJet T120e (can attach an "A1" size roll of paper)
(Site used for example only, you could probably find it cheaper elsewhere.)

http://www.uk.insight.com/en-gb/productinfo/plotters/0001553305-00000001

Or their is the free standing plotter. Which will set you back between £1,000 - £3,000

If it's less than 100 a year it might just as well keep getting them printed by someone else.

A most of the "banner" inkjet desktop consumer printers I've seen recently don't go up to 1m lengths, they only do up to 94cm (+/-1cm) Not sure if that's too small or what you already use.

neilwoods

You can buy laser printer for banners, prices ranger from £2000 and up.

Assuming your using a 4 colour printer and no colour profiles, screen not calibrated.

You could have a £50,000 printer and still get bad results.

Large format printer is your best option, 2nd hand 24" large format printer, can get for about £300 on ebay, again use ciss system.

Then once you have printer, calibrate your monitor, then create colour profiles, so what you see on screen is what get printed.