Other Uses for Xante or OKI Based product besides envelopes?

[damfino]

The Oki-Xante drums make direct contact with the paper, unlike other lasers whose drums transfer to a belt. This contributes to a short life. Oki's belt is there only as a transport and charging component.

Another factor which causes premature drum wear is the built-in cleaning cycle. Multiple short runs and one-off's will result in a shorter life than long runs as the printer will perform a rather aggressive scrub of the drum surface. Generally not an issue if you are doing production envelope work. There is a setting to turn this feature off, but I have never tried it for fear of quality issues.

One side effect of drum wear is poor toner adhesion. Near the end of life I find that I have to slow the printer down or toner rub-off will occur. Certain colors, more specifically certain color densities, are more susceptible than others.

[Knight Images]

Considering Xante myself, but it's frightening. I haven't read such a disparity of opinions about a printer that the Xante inspires. Some people claim it drives them to the poor house and others love it. I currently pay my pressman $18 an hour to run an AB Dick for invitations. I love the quality of real ink, but providing color to customers is prohibitive. The Xante seems like almost the only choice for entry-level digital color because of its straight path.

Don't do it, terrible support!!!!!

[uncle leo]

Boat anchor.

[JaimeZ]

I run a lot of announcement envelopes through our Ilumina, we've had it for over three years. I have also use it for Magnacote by putting two sheets together so that the magnet part is not exposed to the inside of the machine.

[TheProcessIStheproduct]

I am kind of surprised all you printers are complaining about smashed and embossed envelopes off the OKI engine... Whenever I have run envelopes on a duplicator I smash the crap out of it to get nice solid ink, sure you get some flap lines and some embossing, but it is not that bad, are you guys saying off the OKI it is even worse then a traditional press or just not any better?

[UnlimitedBT]

Read this first! I bought an Oki C9600 for a really good deal and I found out that it doesn't print envelopes well. Yeah, I know, I thought that because the Illumina prints envelopes, the Oki would too but it doesn't. To be specific, the print is fine but the Oki smashes the envelopes so you always get an embossed look in front of the envelope, no matter the size. In other words the envelopes don't look like they came off of a press, it looks like it was just smashed flat and your left with an embossed look. I hope it makes sense. For you Oki users out there that has solved this problem, could you please explain how you've fixed it? Thanks in advance!

Dear Mr. Medialounge for your problem I think I might have a solution for you. Take one of the fusers (You would need to dedicate it to Envelopes only) take a plastic covers off to reveal pressure springs, twist them to release a pressure, say 1 full turn, put the unit in to printer and run few envelopes - see how they come out. You may have to go back few times to find a balance so toner will still be fused and pressure won't smash the envelope. Once you done - just make a note "2.5 turns cc wise" for example so you can do the same with new fuser shell you ever need a replacement. I can probably give you some guidance on disassemble PM me - it should be reasonably simple if you're handy enough.
Roman

[medialounge]

I am kind of surprised all you printers are complaining about smashed and embossed envelopes off the OKI engine... Whenever I have run envelopes on a duplicator I smash the crap out of it to get nice solid ink, sure you get some flap lines and some embossing, but it is not that bad, are you guys saying off the OKI it is even worse then a traditional press or just not any better?

Yes, it embosses the crap out of envelopes. The smashing is a LOT worse on the Oki than than a duplicator. Every time I print envelopes I wonder if the customer is ever going to come back and chew me out.

It's an extremely bad emboss, and to be honest with you, I wouldn't buy ironed envelopes like this if I were the customer!

[UnlimitedBT]

I can imagine that heat and pressure in the fuser are great. but there should be some tolerance between lowering the pressure and still fusing. Please don't forget to mark the starting point if you follow my advice. what interesting is - some printers, like HP LaserJet 9000 series, for example, have fuser pressure release arms marked with envelope, meaning HP engineers oversee this problem and pre-designed their printer to avoid this issue.