[NTLUG:Discuss] OT printer carrier sheet question

[Fred James]

Mike Hart wrote:
> Laser printers heat-from-the-back to fuse the toner onto the paper. if you've doubled the thickness of a 20lb sheet of paper, your check could have disappearing ink. You may need need to find a paper type setting and make it something like 'cover'.
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>       On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 9:21 AM, Greg Edwards <greg at edwards-tx.us> wrote:
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>   At one time I used Quicken check writer with sheets of checks.  What
> they had was a sheet with a sticky strip on the top of the page.  If you
> had a less than full sheet you stick the first check at the top of the
> page so it lined up correctly.  IIRC there was a sticky strip where the
> last check (bottom) would get held in place too.
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> Greg Edwards
> http://greg.edwards-tx.us
>
> On 1/6/2015 8:53 AM, Fred James wrote:
>> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>> Doesn't it have an envelope feeder?  Can't you use it?  If so I will
>>> warn you that Apache OpenOffice has a bug printing #10 envelopes. The
>>> trick to get it to work is under Format->Page, you have to change the
>>> text direction to "Right-to-left Vertical".  Test with regular paper
>>> before wasting check stock.
>>>
>>> On 01/05/2015 03:25 PM, Fred James wrote:
>>>> OT printer carrier sheet question
>>>>
>>>> My checks are too small to go through my printer (HP LJ 4M+) on their
>>>> own.  Does anyone know of a carrier sheet, or other "trick" to get a
>>>> small sheet through the printer?
>>>> Thank you
>>>> Regards
>>>> Fred James
>> Leroy Tennison
>> Thank you for your reply ... and the tip on the Apache OpenOffice bug,
>> which seems to have been carried over into LibreOffice as well ... I
>> shall try that out.
>>
>> Unfortunately, while the printer does have a manual feed with envelope
>> guide, the minimum size media is 3.5x6.5 inches, and the checks are
>> 2,75x6.25 inches ... too small in each direction.
>>
>> I am working (as a work around) at developing a carrier out of a sheet
>> of 8.5x11 overhead transparency stock ... positioning and holding the
>> check in slots cut through the clear stock.  So far I have one long slot
>> at the feed end to hold the leading edge of the check, and I am now
>> going to add a couple of small diagonal slots to hold the tail end (keep
>> it aligned properly ... the single head slot doesn't quite do the
>> alignment part.  Not magic, but I hope it works ... more testing ahead.
>> Regards
>> Fred James
Mike Hart
Ink/toner set is fine ... no smudging.
Regards
Fred James