Does the PIXMA i8720 handle card stock well? I run a very small greetings card business, and my current printer murders card stock.
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I'm not sure how thick of a card stock you are using but I use 100lb matte card stock paper all the time on this printer and it comes our flawlessly!
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The heaviest we've printed is 140 lb paper by Strathmore. We also print greeting and post cards; aside of drymounting photo paper to card stock (whose photo quality absolutely can't be beat), the best paper we've found for iP8720 direct printing is Canson Stamping Cards (beats Strathmore's inket offerings hands-down; we found it on Dick Blick's site). I don't know if Canson publishes this specific product's weight, but it's probably around ~110 lbs.
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Guess my previous andswer got sent before I was ready! Manual indicates 17 to 28 pound paper. I see other responder has used heavier paper apparently with no problem. I have not tried that.
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I've used STAPLES brand poster board to print woodworking patterns and the iP8720 had no problem with it. The package doesn't say what weight it is but it's quite heavy.
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Time to print a page varies, but it is not fast, compared to other printers. Some of the time is used for the printer to "get ready" once the command is given. I printed once or twice a month and the ink was fine. It's the paper handling that is a problem with this printer. 20-24 lb bond paper works fine. Card stock will cause a hiccup.
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Hello!I print my own cards and I have two printers that I have used to print cards using this card stock. I have a Hewelett Packard (HP) Officejet Pro 8500 (it's the older of my two printers) and a Canon MG 6220. actually, both printers do a fine job of printing using this card stock. (I make all of my cards for Birthday's, get well, etc.) I love doing it and this card stock works very nicely. Betsy
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Joan, I bought the HP e8100 printer and it will not take the 110 lb card stock either, eventhough it says it takes card stock and has no weight limit listed. The HP tech support in India told me that the printer was working just fine because it printed on regular paper without a problem. He said that I needed to contact Adobe because it was a problem with the Adobe file that I was trying to print. (The printer would not grab the paper and feed it thru the machine) Calling tech support was a waste of time. I am returning the machine.
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I've not been successful with card stock - even with 60 pound paper. It's great with 24 pound paper and envelopes but when I tried the card stock it just kept hanging up. Hope this is helpful to you.
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The printer produces excellent color--it's at it's best on a coated stock but also does a nice job on heavy card stock. I calibrate my monitor and the images the printer produces are pretty much indistinguishable from the image on the screen. BTW, you can't use ink jet photo paper. It would run the printer. It would do an excellent job on a newsletter or short run brochure, however.
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You're the second person I've tried to help with this issue. According to Brother it will not handle card stock. 30 lb paper is probably its limit. Other than that, this is an excellent, reliable, fast, easy to maintain, with lower cartridge costs than its competitors.
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Great printer EXCEPT for the issue with card stock. I've tried 32lb stock and still no luck
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Yes. I use card stock to create greeting cards and business cards all of the time with no problems.The colors are crisp and the feed is pretty fast considering it's an ink jet printer.IO do find that the machine is sensative when it gets down to the last 2 or three pages. Sometimes it reacts as if the paper ran out. so, just make sure you have a nice fill of paper in the feed tray.I also have a Pixma MP560. The 560 has two feeds and both work perfectly.I bought the MG5420 because it works with wirelessly my Ipad and iphone and, a rare feature; it prints on CD's and DVD's. Yes. I use card stock to create greeting cards and business cards all of the time with no problems.The colors are crisp and the feed is pretty fast considering it's an ink jet printer.IO do find that the machine is sensative when it gets down to the last 2 or three pages. Sometimes it reacts as if the paper ran out. so, just make sure you have a nice fill of paper in the feed tray.I also have a Pixma MP560. The 560 has two feeds and both work perfectly.I bought the MG5420 because it works with wirelessly my Ipad and iphone and, a rare feature; it prints on CD's and... » Read More Yes. I use card stock to create greeting cards and business cards all of the time with no problems.The colors are crisp and the feed is pretty fast considering it's an ink jet printer.IO do find that the machine is sensative when it gets down to the last 2 or three pages. Sometimes it reacts as if the paper ran out. so, just make sure you have a nice fill of paper in the feed tray.I also have a Pixma MP560. The 560 has two feeds and both work perfectly.I bought the MG5420 because it works with wirelessly my Ipad and iphone and, a rare feature; it prints on CD's and DVD's. « Show Less
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I don't know. I have used card stock from staples in the printer and it did great!
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I have not tried card stock. It is a good printer and my only regret is that it requires Epson ink.
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I have used it successfully with postcard stock. Haven't tried anything heavier. I have not experienced ANY problems with this printer--print on CD's, scan to email, fax, etc. Very happy with it.
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It's worked well when I've used it with cover stock or photo paper. I'm about to try a project with card stock and will report back.
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I have not done card stocks but it did do a nice job on envelopes. I would reccomend this printer highly no problems so far.
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Yes, it prints card stock quite well. You have to load it in the top tray and will have to flip it manually if you are printing on both sides.
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I never got that far, I bought it to print CD, with Mac Mountain Lion, it didn't work. All I used was plain paper and every one came out mangled on one side. So, not sure about card stock. Epson always been a good brand so maybe I just got a bad one.
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Yes - I think that you can. The printer has two trays in front: the one for letter-sized paper, and a second tray for photo paper (5"x8", 4"x6", etc.). If it can print photo paper from the front tray I imagine it can print card stock too.