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Warning: I blew $220 on a fancy home printer that jammed on every cardstock job
I thought a home printer would save me trips to the copy place on 8th, but after 6 months of feeding it 110lb cardstock for invites, every third sheet jammed or came out with roller marks, and the new print shop down the street does the same job for 40 cents a sheet, so has anyone actually found a desktop printer that handles heavy paper without eating it?
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the_shane5d ago
Hold on, I gotta push back on one thing here. The 40 cents a sheet at the print shop isn't really the same job as printing at home, because when you print at home you're paying for the machine, the ink, and your own time, but the print shop number only covers the paper and their labor. Once you add up what you spent on the printer plus ink plus all those ruined sheets you threw away, your real cost per good invite was probably way higher than 40 cents. So honestly the math might actually favor the print shop even more than you think, not less. The thing people miss with heavy cardstock is that most cheap home printers feed paper by bending it around a tight roller, and 110lb stock just doesn't want to bend like that, which is why it jams every third sheet. You need a printer with a straight paper path, the kind that feeds from a rear tray and shoots out the front almost flat, and those start around $300 and up. So your options are basically a straight path printer or just letting the shop handle it, and for invites I'd lean toward the shop every time.
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