Konica C6501 black on preprinted card shells

[elixir]

Anyone have experience doing this, either simplex or duplex?

Shell would be cut to finished size as 4x5.5 or 6x9 cards.

Any issues?

Thanks!

 

[pdan]

I (wanted to) tried to feed a 3.5 x 8.5 and found the guides would not come down that small yesterday. They do appear to come in to 4 in however so if you can feed some blanks, go for it with this in mind...

If you feed many sheets of any size, the fuser belt will show wear marks at the outer edge and not image smoothly at such area. If you feed perhaps 2000 (over time) you will show the objectionable area in all standard size prints. (Typical scenario is lines at the 11 inch edge from letter size and tabloid sheets. 12 x 18 jobs show the flaw, typically at the (11x 17 bleed) trim)

I would leave your small blanks multiple up on parent sheets unless it is an occasional scenario.

 

[OkiTech]

I think there is a tread about problems running a B/W prints on color machine aside my personal opinion that is it foolish, waist of technology and it's capability. Previous poster is correct - you will create a fuser marks (and it is not even a major problem running B/W) that will affect future printing of anything larger plus you will run-up the lifes of everything up running just BS b/w stuff and when quality sensitive color order comes in - what are you going to do?
Get a B/W printer for that or at least something that not as expensive and crucial to your operation. Get OKI CX3641 or similar, it is color but when run in B/W mode CMY drums are raised up and do not turn, produces nice b/w, takes 330 GSM, and dirt cheap.
And you'd be able to run some short run envelopes as well....

 

[YpsiStandard]

I have trouble running smaller size sheets (ex. 4x5.5). Sometimes they get stuck exiting the fuser. I would recommend a larger size. We will set up our shells that are later imprinted digitally as an 8.5x11. Any larger size seems to skew too much.

Hope this helps.