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Colour laserjet printing
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Can I use inkjet photopaper in a colour laser printer, or will it cause untold damage?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You're right - I didn't read the question closely enough! This quote seems to indicate caution is required: "Clay or other pigment-coated papers must be specifically designed for laser printers. The electrical properties must be controlled and the surface designed not to blister during fusing, and the coating must not flake or shed particles that can contaminate the printer." Maybe the paper manufacturer could help?
We used to use a Canon CLC 750 Laser copier at work for printing graphics and it was quite fussy over the paper it would take. The wrong transparencies would melt onto the heated rollers. And the wrong paper would jam and shred itself EVERYWHERE and we'd have to call the engineer. My advice is not to use glossy photo paper. My main worry with inkjet paper is that it would be more absorbent than laser paper which is very high quality and much smoother.
We've got 2 Hp colourjet 5400 (I think that's the number) in my office at work & I shove alsorts through - acetates, stickers, glossies.
I guess it could be partly do with the speed of the printer - more ppms & it doesn't have time to melt/blister the paper.
Mind you printing in colour means longer in the printer because of rotating the toner cartridges for each colour pass. Just hope it doesn't reach the hot part (the fuser) until after it completed the transfer process.
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