Office Printer (toner style) for Logos

Has anyone tried using a office style LaserJet office printer to print logos with any success (not bleeding)? This would be the office style that uses toner (fuses black/gray images to the paper) – and not an inkjet type.

Best,

HerbB

I don’t know much about it, but mixing lazers (hot) with ricepaper (thin) sounds like a bad idea (fire). Might want to try that in the off hours around the office… with a logo that doesn’t include your name :wink:

Here’s a thought, I don’t shape but used to work in a color copier lab where we serviced artists and photographers that had us run all kinds of trippy stuff through our $50,000 CMYK printers.

Stuff that went through the copier:

-regular paper 28lb

-cardstock up to 110 lb

-heat transfers (iron-ons)

artistic papers:

-water color

-textured oil crayon paper

-paper w/ embedded fabric (handmade)

I was a copier geek and could get the copier to take stuff i shouldn’t have. Must places wont run anything except plane paper and approved transfer papers for overheads and t-shirts.

We had Canon Color Copiers and they were bad ass. Could make a print from 4"x5" transparency, B&W negatives, paper, paintings, slides, whatever up to 11’x17’.

Toner is a crazy toxic powder mixture of iron and color pigments and it’s magnetically drawn onto paper as it raps around a transfer drum and then it gets ‘fused’ to the paper via fuser rollers which are insanely hot. I don’t know if toner that would have any effect on resins or what not. I don’t think the colors would bleed since the basically become solids like a plastic. Only bleeding problem I could thing of would be if the toner by chance was soluble in resing but that’d be an easy thing to test for.

Lates

Thanks CBS, although it doesn’t solve Herb’s problem, I thought it was very informative, in an abstract way. If you put in an original drawing I would have accused you of being Doc.

I have used two different lazer printers to print black graphics at home. I have also gotten Kinkos to print color graphics for me on rice paper using their lazer printer. Works great, no problems. Graphics do not fade in the sun. Try it.