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Step 8Printer's, man I hate printers
The only printer we currently own is a old, cheap hp all in 1 inkjet, on the back of the printer there is a plastic panel that can be removed to pull out paper jams, but with that off you can also run heavy stock like cardboard, cardstock or photo paper from the back in a direct line out to the front
your printer will most likely differ but something along those lines is what we need, a way to feed paper from the back so this heavy cardboard does not have to go around the rollers.
On my particular piece of "magic" its not really designed to do this, so in order to get it to work I had to have paper in the front tray or it would trigger a jam condition.
Then I had to kinda push the cardboard in, then it would spit it out 4 or 5 times, and Finally print on it.
It took me about 15 min to get it to print the first time, but it started going at an angle at the last moment and skewed the card
The second time it did not take as long, but then my wife said, "you know the text on the back is backwards" and sure enough it was
SO about an hour of listening to this thing clunk about, clearing its software of paper jams, running the cardboard tru the dumb thing 4 or 5 times each print and really cheesing off the wife, (cause it was sitting about a foot from her head while all this was going on) I finally got the thing to print the card straight and proper on my last piece of scrap cardboard.
Depending on your printer and your penitence maybe your luck will be better, but In the end it DID do it and saved itself from me going "Office Space" on it
Worst case and you cannot print directly on the cardboard, you can always just print it out on paper and then glue the paper to the cardboard (but I was committed to the idea)
your printer will most likely differ but something along those lines is what we need, a way to feed paper from the back so this heavy cardboard does not have to go around the rollers.
On my particular piece of "magic" its not really designed to do this, so in order to get it to work I had to have paper in the front tray or it would trigger a jam condition.
Then I had to kinda push the cardboard in, then it would spit it out 4 or 5 times, and Finally print on it.
It took me about 15 min to get it to print the first time, but it started going at an angle at the last moment and skewed the card
The second time it did not take as long, but then my wife said, "you know the text on the back is backwards" and sure enough it was
SO about an hour of listening to this thing clunk about, clearing its software of paper jams, running the cardboard tru the dumb thing 4 or 5 times each print and really cheesing off the wife, (cause it was sitting about a foot from her head while all this was going on) I finally got the thing to print the card straight and proper on my last piece of scrap cardboard.
Depending on your printer and your penitence maybe your luck will be better, but In the end it DID do it and saved itself from me going "Office Space" on it
Worst case and you cannot print directly on the cardboard, you can always just print it out on paper and then glue the paper to the cardboard (but I was committed to the idea)
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