How do I print on dark brown paper?

[printing on dark paper]

I need to address dark brown envelopes in a silver tone ink. Anyone have any
ideas on how I do this? I am working on the Epson 1400.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is there a silver ink cartridge for the Epson 1400? Otherwise, I suspect
you'll be disappointed in the results. If there is a silver ink cartridge,
then you probably substitute it for the black cartridge. You then just
address the envelopes normally, setting the font color to black, and the
printer does the rest.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

One other option:

http://www.papilio.com/metallic gold silver transfer foil blue green red.html

(I've never used this stuff and you'd need a laser printer and an iron. Is
it really worth all of the work involved?
http://www.papilio.com/includes/pdf/other/MTF.pdf)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When the stuff first came out, it was hyped at PaperDirect, where I used to
get some things, and I had some samples of it. At that time you were
supposed to tape the foil to the relevant areas of the page and then run the
sheet back through the laser printer (printing a blank page). This depended
on high-heat fusers, I guess. I think it would be a lot easier with a
laminator or iron (I couldn't get it to work dependably with the printer).

Ironically, my high-heat printer worked against me when we were trying to
print some graduation announcements for Virginia. She had received a limited
supply from the school, and we wanted to print more, using blanks we'd
gotten at the Harvard Coop. But they had embossed foil accents, and when I
tried running one through the laser printer, the foil melted. Ugh. The rest
were printed on my inkjet printer!

In those days most people were probably using inkjet printers or "personal"
laser printers with low-heat fusers. My current LaserJet uses a low-heat
fuser, I think.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

One other option:

http://www.papilio.com/metallic gold silver transfer foil blue green red.html

(I've never used this stuff and you'd need a laser printer and an iron. Is
it really worth all of the work involved?
http://www.papilio.com/includes/pdf/other/MTF.pdf)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



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I need to address dark brown envelopes in a silver tone ink. Anyone have
any
ideas on how I do this? I am working on the Epson 1400.