A Good Printer For Printing On Up To 250Gsm Card?

[fiesata]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good ink jet printer for printing on up to 250gsm card at home ? My wife does crafts and our current Kodak printer's finally given up the ghost!

It must have Wi Fi as most do these days and be reasonably priced say up to £70 or so and have reasonably priced ink

Many thanks

Paul

[Dizmo]

I'm going to agree with methyl on this one; 250gsm is going to cause all kinds of problems - the feeding alone is going to be a problem.

[Peter Pedant]

Dont get Lexmark - they are prone to the awful "AIOC.exe error"
and you have to pay good money for the patch which... may not work

[Dizmo]

I wouldn't go any higher than 160gsm personally.

[Buenchico]

Printer questions (not necessarily related to printing on card) come up quite often and there seem to be a lot of fans of the Canon Pixma range. (Count me among them!).

This thread, specifically about printing on card, also seems to point towards Canon Pixma printers (especially if you disregard the recommendations for some printers, from other manufacturers, which cost well over £200):
https://www.etsy.com/teams/7718/questions/discuss/14468033/

Unsurprisingly, you're seeking cheap inks. That's likely to mean that you'll need a printer with separate cartridges for each colour. (My own Canon Pixma definitely wasn't the cheapest one available within the range when I bought it but I only pay around £20 for 4 full sets of all five compatible inks from my preferred source; they're even cheaper on eBay. Buying the multi-colour cartridges, for cheaper printers, would be much, much more expensive).

So I'd be looking at something like this:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/printers-ink/printers-scanners/all-in-one-printers/canon-pixma-mg5550-all-in-one-wireless-inkjet-printer-21732484-pdt.html#cat-0
which has separate inks (and which are reasonably priced):
http://inkredible.co.uk/inkredible-saver-canon-pixma-mg5550-ink-cartridges
(£30 for 4 full sets of all five inks is pretty good. I can recommend that supplier but there are cheaper offers elsewhere on the web).

A look at the full specs shows that it accepts up to 300gsm card:
http://www.canon.co.uk/Printers/Inkjet/PIXMA/PIXMA_MG5550/#p-specification

[Dizmo]

I print using a bog standard ink jet at no more than 160gsm and I've never had any problems.

[Ailsajune]

Although printing on card can be death to most printers, I have to say that the Canon Pixma MG5051 All-In-One printed beautifully on card up to and including 300gsm. Sadly this model is no longer available but I've been told that one of the other Canon Pixma range should also print on card you just have to ensure that it is top loading. The MG5051 had both top and bottom loading. It lasted me over a year and the reason it was taken off the market (I think) was because after a year of printing it suddenly stopped and had an error stating that the print head could no longer be recognised. When you search the internet you find that just about everyone who bought this model had the same thing happen. Some people even thought it was a dead switch that Canon had incorporated to ensure owners had to buy a new printer. A little conspiracy theory I think! Anyway, don't buy an Epson for printing on card because it definitely can't print on anything thicker than 120gsm paper (possibly 150gsm paper). Epson are super printers and seem to be the only ones who clearly state that their printers don't take card. I would have thought that with the increase in crafting, at least one company would produce a printer that can print on card. They would really make a killing in their sales. Oh well maybe some day. I am looking into the Canon Pixma 5650 in the hope that it can print like my last printer. One great thing is that it uses individual ink cartridges. I always chose printers like this as not only does it save you money but the print result is far better quality than the printers that only have two cartridges (1 black and 1 multicolour)