Envelope printer

[metromike]

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.

tia
Mike

 

[LeGerbs]

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

 

[DJenkins]

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.

 

[bill kahny]

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.

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

 

[DJenkins]

Yes it still requires the DIGITAL Window.

 

[Shawnd]

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

 

[Tonez]

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.