Small format B&W printer help

[sdodom]

I couldn't figure out where best to post this so I hope it works.

I have an agricultural company that we need to print the code date on about 2000-3'x7' labels per week for one customer. The print area is only .25'x.75' and is black only. It is regular paper weight, not post card stock.

Any suggestions on a machine? Used is preferred since we are not in this business.

Thank you.

 

[dabob]

Sdodom . . .I looked at your profile and it says that you are an in plant printer . . . . the question is how much of a printer are you . . . if you have nothing but a digital background I would recommend jobbing this out - the ROI on buying a press, even used would be a long time coming and in the meantime you could be doing what you do best which imho is probably not putting ink on paper

my 2 cents worth . . . .

 

[sdodom]

Sdodom . . .I looked at your profile and it says that you are an in plant printer . . . . the question is how much of a printer are you . . . if you have nothing but a digital background I would recommend jobbing this out - the ROI on buying a press, even used would be a long time coming and in the meantime you could be doing what you do best which imho is probably not putting ink on paper

my 2 cents worth . . . .

Thank you for the input. I didn't know what to put because it didn't say anything related to my industry, agriculture. I am not a printer. I can't farm it out because we have to print a different expiration date every week. We don't know what we have to pack the following week till the previous Friday. I'm looking for a desktop printer like a inkjet/laser that can do small format/high volume.

On the sales side in the past we have used bulk mailer systems for bar-coding bulk mail like Rena's but thought I'd see if something different was available.

I hope this helps clarify.

 

[MailGuru]

No worries, all you'll need is a small, toner-based, sheet-fed inexpensive B & W office printer. Something like an HP 9000 Laser Jet (used), or, a hokie-data or similar. These printers will print about 50-pages per minute (about 3,000 per hour). Your labels need to come multi-up on a sheet. If your sheet size is 8.5 x 11, you'll only get 3 (3" x 7") labels to a sheet, but, that means you'll only have to run about 700 sheets (about 15-minutes worth of printing). You can go online to onlinelabels.com to see if they have a standard multiple-up for a 3"x7". It doesn't sound like a standard size, though. You'll probably have to order a custom label. Since you are printing the same expiration date on all labels of any particular run, you won't need any sophisticated merge software, Microsoft Word would handle this fine.