Best printer for printing colour labels for children

[JamesT]

Hi all,

First post here. I am currently printing 30mm stickers on A5 sheet sticker paper. The stickers are aimed at kids so the designs are colourful. I'm currently using a HP M283 FDW Laser printer and given the extortionate price of HP toner have sourced some decent OEM toner from China in bulk.

The problem I have is even with official HP toner and the Chinese made OEM toner the stickers are not as vivid as I would like, the colours are coming out fairly dull which isn't great for stickers aimed at children. I'm also going through tons of toner and not a big fan of sending all of this plastic into a landfill.

I'm now looking for a new printer and want some advice, I'm not at the stage of needing anything bigger than a desktop printer, but I'm open to spending some cash on it if it provides me with more vivid colours.

So:

- For printing out vivid stickers is it best to use inkjet or laser?
- What's the most economical printer for doing this type of work?
- Ideally I am looking for something with a larger ink / toner capacity to avoid running out midway through 100 sheets of stickers

I am researching the Epson Eco Tank series so welcome thoughts on that

Appreciate the support

 

[xfactor printing]

Have you tried different color settings when sending prints to your current HP laser printer?

Are you working in CMYK or RGB?

If you send a straight cyan, magenta, or yellow color block to your printer, are those colors vivid enough?

 

[JamesT]

Have you tried different color settings when sending prints to your current HP laser printer?

Are you working in CMYK or RGB?

If you send a straight cyan, magenta, or yellow color block to your printer, are those colors vivid enough?

Working in CMYK. Using straight CMYK are just a bit dull / dark.

 

[xfactor printing]

I don't have a HP M283; the menu on the printer should have a test print function to run a test print from the printer itself. See if those colors are equally dull to rule out a driver issue. If so, I'm not sure you'll do better. You won't achieve something like a neon green or fluorescent color with any 4-color printer I'm aware of, but the laser should do colors that are as bright or brighter than a 4-color inkjet on uncoated label stock.