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Any suggestions: Printer that would work for Digi stamps w/out bleeding?
Hi Everyone,
I'm planning to buy a new printer specifically to be able to print digi stamps without bleeding problems when coloring. I would love to hear what printers you guys been using for digi stamps and works great...Any tips would be appreciated thanks!
I have never had an issue with my Epson Workforce 630 and bleeding. Usually I'll print images and wait a day to use them, but I have also used them after a couple of minutes and not had a problem either. Sometimes I'll even stamp an image, scan it and reprint and color with that, to avoid ink bleed that I'll sometimes get from using real ink. (Though purchasing the Memento ink has helped that issue).
I had 2 HPs and on both there was a lot of bleeding. I got a canon and that is much better for black line images with no bleeding when coloring with copics.
Thanks for the input ladies! I went to look at some laser printer today and I think i'm going to hold off on the printer for now. It's a bit pricey but I will definitly considering to get a laser one in the future. For now I will stick with the rubber/clear stamps nyt!
I bought my Brother Laser at Staples for just under $90 a few months ago and have no complaints. I can print on #80 paper (I use Hammermill Cover) but I haven't tried anything thicker. It definitely suits my needs. Printers are on sale by brand pretty often at major office supply stores, so definitely shop around, especially since any laser printer will do what you need it to as far as not bleed, and you can bring your own paper to the store to test its feeding capabilities.
Also, check toner and drum prices when you consider what you want to buy. Some printers have these as separate units and can get pretty expensive, especially for the drum. Brother TN-450 is toner and drum all in one for $45 and replacing the drum with each toner means it's less likely you'll get strange print lines or poor quality print.
I know you said you're going to wait, but I wanted to brag about my wonderful printer
Hi leeann,
I almost bought the Brother brand for $109. But when I check the cost for ink it was $45 too. So I had to back out and think it over for now, lol! Thanks, for the input also
I had been using an Epson printer, but it was getting old and flakey.
I just purchased a Brother laser printer at Staples for half price!!! I figured that while the replacement toner cartridges were pricey, buying all the color inkjet cartridges for a new Epson would be even pricier.
Staples runs periodic specials on their printers. Go online and take a look or check Sunday newspaper advertisements.
I just (OK, a few months ago) bought a Brother on sale on Amazon. It was $75, and came with a starter toner cartridge that's supposed to be good for 700 pages. No problems whatsoever coloring, albeit with Stampin' Up markers, not Coptics. I plan on ordering a replacement card if and when I need it, but even so, $45 for 1500 pages is way better than what I'd pay for an inkjet at $25-$30 for 100-200 pages.
The kind of printer you are using makes no difference. The ink of the printed image must be heat set if you are using gamsol or water color your image. There's no getting around that. Print your image with whatever printer using the smallest amount of ink--draft/fast draft setting. Heat set the image immediately or heat set the image and let it dry. Some say overnight, but I heat set and use the image immediately. I use digis exclusively and have never had an image run after heat setting. So don't think a special brand of printer will solve the bleeding problem. Good Luck.
The kind of printer you are using makes no difference. The ink of the printed image must be heat set if you are using gamsol or water color your image. There's no getting around that. Print your image with whatever printer using the smallest amount of ink--draft/fast draft setting. Heat set the image immediately or heat set the image and let it dry. Some say overnight, but I heat set and use the image immediately. I use digis exclusively and have never had an image run after heat setting. So don't think a special brand of printer will solve the bleeding problem. Good Luck.
Actually, a laser printer print does not run as it does not lay down ink like ink jet printers but rather is similar to a photocopy. I have run my print thru water and never had an issue. Lasers are reasonablly priced - I got my Samsung at Staples for around 200.00
The kind of printer you are using makes no difference. The ink of the printed image must be heat set if you are using gamsol or water color your image. There's no getting around that. Print your image with whatever printer using the smallest amount of ink--draft/fast draft setting. Heat set the image immediately or heat set the image and let it dry. Some say overnight, but I heat set and use the image immediately. I use digis exclusively and have never had an image run after heat setting. So don't think a special brand of printer will solve the bleeding problem. Good Luck.
Actually not entirely true. A laser printer doesn't use liquid ink - it uses dry toner that is fused to the paper with heat. If one of the toner cartridges ever leaks or explodes, it's a horrid mess of extremely fine dry BLACK powder that goes everywhere and is impossible to clean up. It's waterproof, so it works really well with any kind of watercolor or waterbased markers. However, I've had it smudge when using OMS and color pencils, so the OMS must react with something in the toner. You can also use acetone to get the image to transfer, so acetone will also make it smudge.
Inkjet printers work with liquid ink, and the formulation of the ink varies between printer manufacturers. I've had inkjet ink that ran with watercoloring even after it was heat set, and I've had inkjet ink that didn't run even if it had been printed only 5 minutes earlier. The only thing that's worked for me no matter what ink the image was printed with is to zap it with workable fixative. Haven't tried that with my alcohol markers - I'm afraid that it will somehow gunk up the tips - but as long as I know that laser toner and my Canon inks don't smudge, I'm content.
Any suggestions: Printer that would work for Digi stamps w/out bleeding?
