Printing #10 envelopes on a Ricoh Aficio 2045e

[bubbabear]

Has anyone out there had any success in printing #10 envelopes through the bypass tray of a 2045e?

If so any pointers you can give me.

[cobiray]

They will run, but it's not pretty. Unfortunately, most times the envelopes come out wrinkled. The print seems to be ok. I'd set the bypass for thick paper settings when running them. What are you trying to print from?

[unisys12]

Not totally sure about the older models, but strangely I have found that a lot of the PCL drivers do not have the paper setting of "COM10" (which stands for Common #10 Envelope). It is however in the RPCS driver.

Another odd thing, now that I think about it. I have had several customers tell me, when replacing an older model such as yours you are dealing with to a newer model, that they have always run their envelopes short edge feed and it has always worked fine. But the new machines require that you run them long edge feed with the flap open.

Speaking of that, I do know that the envelope being used should be the type with a short flap. You will recognize this by the short flap, which should be used, actually is straight across the length of the flap. And the long flap, which you shouldn't use, actually angles to a point.

Actually found this site, with a quick Google search that yeilds a good deal of info about envelopes. Hope some of this helps.

Envelope Styles and Sizes