HP DesignJet 800 print problems

[reckless]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

Check out this link: A Detail Guide to Screen Printing on Plastic Bags At Home
"A Detail Guide to Screen Printing on Plastic Bags At Home"

The title is about screen printing on plastic bags but also talks a little about inkjet printing.

Here's a link to the Bing search:
printing on poly bags - Bing

There's more websites there.

Seems the tough part would be how to feed the bag into the printer.

Yeah I have been googling for days now. I usually try to read before posting here as I have hard time describing what I am facing and usually trying to do things too far outside the box. I did find a Z6100 nearby that needs ink for $600. I am not sure if thats a solvent printer?

[D Hook]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

'Fraid not. It's also water based ink. Good printers but more expensive to maintain.

[reckless]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

Just put the roll in a box on a table or the floor and feed them in. It should work fine.

These printers were never designed to print labels so.. I'm not sure how you're going to tell it the page size, etc.

Kiran

This is the kind of stuff im trying to print with my $2 ink, most everyone is charging $0.66/ea for printing in 1k qty. I usually buy these for under $0.01/ea:
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[reckless]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

Is there a trick to align for double sided printing? Trying to avoid registration issues.

[reckless]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

Do you just put it through designjet twice? This is not on a roll, flat. I can see registration problems

[Phil B.]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

Do you just put it through designjet twice? This is not on a roll, flat. I can see registration problems

I am not aware OF this plotter having an auto duplex feature.

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[reckless]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

Thanks, not trying to auto duplex. Trying to manually duplex without major registration issues using flat media not roll.

[reckless]

Re: HP DesignJet 800 print problems

I wasn't watching my laptop for a week and windows update ran without telling me and ruined my setup. Now I can't print. It doesn't look simple undoing a ton of updates. Is there a better option than buying an old windows XP laptop to use as a print server? I believe windows XP didn't have these issues that I have with Windows 7. Windows 10 I have not been able to print, I considered a virtual machine but I feel like thats going to be too big of a headache.