Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!ron.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Printing USPS post cards on a laser Message-ID: Date: 16 May 89 16:35:01 GMT References: <2991@muvms1.bitnet> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 I can't tell you about the LPS40, but I've run card stock through an older laserwriter and can share my experiences. First, it is hopeless to put postcard thickness stock in the paper tray. In the Laserwriter the paper makes a very tight turn coming out of the tray which the cardstock can't do. The manual feeder is cranky, but works. The Laserwriter II's may be slightly better than this, as the paper from the tray and the manual feeder follow the same path. The first problem is that 4 postcards on 8.5 by 11 stock consume the paper exactly. This means that you must get the registration exact, plus, you can't print to the borders because of the approx half inch margins that the printer won't print on. I ended up finding it easier to print 3 up horizontally to avoid this problem. As for double sided printing things work OK, but be careful. Running something through twice faced the same way up causes problems and jams. -Ron