Envelope printer

Looking for recommendations for an Envelope printer under 20k.
Our Xanté Impressia crapped out and we are looking at their En/Press.
Any input welcome.

Suggestions on other printers also welcome.

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Mike

We have a Xante En/Press recently got it because our old Konica 1070 Bizhub with an envelope fuser hates #10's for some reason. Probably because it's older than dirt at this point. We haven't had many issues with it thus far and spits out #10's at a fairly quick rate. Our only concern is that anything below 8.5 inches wide will make it run at a crawling pace. Apparently you'd need to buy a separate fuser which only increases the speed by 20%.

One of the biggest things we love about it is the duplexing on remittance envelopes. Previously we were running remittance on our C9210 one side at a time in small stacks. Saved us a bunch of time babysitting the machine. Overall if you're looking for a good budget envelope printer it's been a good enough solution for our shop

We have used the Mach 5 inkjet printer in the past they now have the mach 6 which is about 30K last i checked. I now use a Cannon V800 just for envelopes and they run around 40k i believe. The mach 6 inkjet is limited to uncoated stocks as it does not have a drying /curing attachment.

DJenkins said:

We have used the Mach 5 inkjet printer in the past they now have the mach 6 which is about 30K last i checked. I now use a Cannon V800 just for envelopes and they run around 40k i believe. The mach 6 inkjet is limited to uncoated stocks as it does not have a drying /curing attachment.

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Does the v800 still require special digital window env. or is it a special fuser of some kind?

Yes it still requires the DIGITAL Window.

I have seen used memjets in the for sale section go for under 20k, you didn't say if you need new or not.

I currently have a Xante En/Press and a iJetColor NXT which is just the mach 6 rebranded, they both are great machines once you know how to run them.

The En/Press is great for higher quality output, but since it uses toner, you need to use digital window envelopes. I limit this machine to around 5,000 envelope runs because it's cheaper to run on offset after that.

Another advantage of the En/Press is its versatility. I have a job that's 11 x 35 inches long on 60# text, which I wouldn't have been able to do before.

I bought the En/Press in 2019 primarily to produce plates for my offset machines, but I would advise against it for that purpose. We could never get more than a few hundred sheets off the press before it started breaking down. Even an Xante rep couldn't stabilize the plates. However, we found a use for it with their iQueue software, which made some jobs easier. Now, it handles small tasks like raffle tickets, envelopes, and similar items. Just avoid anything with large solid colors.

The nxt i have kept it to simple jobs as it seems to do good on the high volume runs the ink from ijet is super expensive which is why i run the aftermarket ink and i have never had a issue with it and the ink is about half the cost
of the oem stuff.

I bought the NXT about a year ago at auction with only 90k impressions on it i payed 11k so if your frugal enough you can find them on the auction sites i got mine off wirebids just be careful who you buy from on there i got mine from printer.strategies and they tried to not give me some of the equipment that went with the machine... I had to fight and get legal invalved to get it.

I've had an Enpress since december of 2019. It runs #9 and #10 envelopes really fast. After about a year though the feeder tray started acting funny, I can't explain it but you have to kind of teeter with the envelopes to get it to feed flawlessly. Announcement sized envelopes run really slow. 9x12, 10x13 (including P&S) run flawlessly through tray 2. Machine will tell you to replace parts you might not necessarily have to replace, so I just go into service mode to reset. Overall its been a great machine, I just have to baby sit it when running jobs. Iqueue software is pretty neat, you can match colors pretty effortlessly.

I see several inkjet models mentioned but looking for toner based.
Sounds like the En/Press is most popular.

Thank you all for the input!

I would have said to check out Intec but it looks like they got out of Printers when Plockmatic bought them out.

That is a shame, that OKI 931/941 was a workhorse printer when mated up with a good feeder and conveyor.

Shawnd said:

I would have said to check out Intec but it looks like they got out of Printers when Plockmatic bought them out.

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We actually started with an Intel many years ago and the Impressia replaced that.

Canon ImagePress C910
Intec CS5600
Anyone have experience or opinions with these?

I had the C810 and I would not recommend it for envelopes. It’s okay, but if you print a lot of envelopes I would look elsewhere. I went from a Versant 80 to the C810 and had to have the C810 removed because it wasn’t even close to the productivity level of the Versant for envelopes. Front to back registration sucked, but that’s another story. I run a tone of envelopes on the Versant 280 and other than having to open some A size envelope flaps it’s a great machine for envelopes.

Canon does have a dedicated envelope feeder, not sure if it runs on the C910 but it’s available for the V series. I have no clue what the cost for that add on is.

metromike said:

Canon ImagePress C910
Intec CS5600
Anyone have experience or opinions with these?

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The 910 is overall a great machine just not for envelopes. I have rarely ran envelopes on it. I had a c850(generation before 910) that I would run envelopes on, but I would not recommend that machine to run large amounts of envelopes. You really have to play with the media settings, and even if you find the perfect settings it will still give you problems. Jams, dog eared envelopes, constant reloading (you can't put more than like 75 #10s in the trays. You can only run envelopes out of trays 1-3 which don't have optimization settings for the trays). Your salesman will be adamant that it will run envelopes, and it sure will just not like how it handles normal paper. A lot cheaper too with the Enpress unless you have an insane color click rate on the 910.