Need Recommendation for Laser Printer

Dear Business Friends,

I am looking for your recommendation for a good laser printer to print on 130# card stock, felt, glossy shimmer paper, envelopes.
Size of the paper not larger than 11X17.

Right now we send the orders outsource but some customer have smaller orders and need them quicker so sending out is not worth.

We are ok if the machine is going to be slower but the printing must be the quality. Basically looking for: "Quality and not Quantity"

We need a printer that print, sharp, clean text and graphics. We print from adobe Illustrator.

Please, any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.
I offer my customers the best, and the printer need to be the best.

We will consider machine on pay per click as an option.

I appreciated any leads you can provide.

Ruth Cohen

 

Hi, #130 cover? A $50,000 printer may not be able to chew that up. You have your wallet ready and full?
There are major trade offs with laser printer VS inkjet and everything is not so simple.
Let me bring you few examples: as envelopes will pass trough your printer, they will leave marks corresponding with folding edges of the envelopes, not in a matter of printing 100-200 envelopes but eventually that's unavoidable, next time you run 11x17 or larger sheet, those marks will show up as quality issues.
And the list goes on.
To run cardstock and envelopes, printers such OKI C9800 / C9650 / ES-3640 / CX-3641 / C910 are the best as they're made strong with separate motor to drive pretty much every unit that turns plus they have straight path from Universal Tray to side exit tray. can print 12x18 and 12.5 x 40"+ banners. Print Quality is OK but not best in the industry.
On other hand Xerox Phaser 7500, 7800 print brilliant images but while print quality does kick a$$, anything printed, passes 2 x 90 degree turns so cardstocks don't lay as flat and can't run card as heavy as OKIs. also Duplex registration is really good on OKI and so-so on xerox models.
You may google models I had mentioned and read detailed specs.
Customers who run OKIs mentioned that they have separate Imaging Units and Fuser to run Envelopes and everything else or have separate printer designated for envelopes, never heard of a printing shop that doing envelopes on Xerox.
This is like whole different science but don't worry you will get the hang of it once start trying.

 

Thank you so so much for this information. I am using the Canon Pixma 9000 Mark II (I have new one in the box, waiting in case the current will break) my favor for envelopes and small cards, also have the Canon Pro 100, I don't think the Pro100 is better than Pixma 9000 Mark II but I am using both of them and I print a lot of envelopes with both printing, but they are inkjet and not laser and sometimes I need to print on metallic envelopes, and the inkjet not good, I need a good laser printing. I will deferentially check the model you mentioned and hopefully I will lead me for the information I am looking too.

Thanks again for taking the time and sharing your information.

Ruth