336. Printing cards with the Canon Pro-1000.
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- I am a huge fan of our new paper from Red River Paper. However I look forward to Canon releasing a new imagePROGRAF printer designed for cut sheets down to a 4x6 size, so I do not have to use this Pro-1000 anymore.
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Hi Sid. I'm looking for a printer that can print 350gsm cardstock for invitation printing. I was looking at videos for the Pro-1000. Reading your comment about a new imagePROGRAF. What are you referring to? Do you not like the pro-1000 for card printing/invitation printing? Thanks so much.
Hello, the Canon 1000 can and will print your heavy weight cards. However in my experience, it is painful if you have to print a lot of them. My pro 1000 always needs to be babysat because it will randomly stop auto feeding paper, either it jams, or it thinks there is no paper to feed. But every once and a while it will print a stack of 20-30 5x7's with no issues.
I think I was referring to the new Pro 300 which was released in 2020, but I have no experience with it. I am just assuming that it will feed paper better since its 5 years newer than the 1000.
The 1000 should be close to being replaced as it is almost 10 years old.
I do like the 1000, I just wish it would auto feed cut sheets without error.
@@SidLafferty Thanks so much. I really appreciate your time. It's so hard to decide what to get. It's not a small purchase! Well - not for me anyway 😊 I'll look at the Pro 300.
Just an FYI for you. I talked to someone at the Red River Paper company, asking them what printer they recommend to print their 5x7 60lb matte papers. I specifically asked about the matte, because it is the most difficult to auto feed.
Here is what I was told
"The only printers that I'm aware of that can maybe sometimes handle it are the Canon Pro-200 ,-300 ,and -1000. To the best of my knowledge there are no printers on the market that can consistently feed 60lb matte paper sheets from an auto-loader.
According to the manual (at least for the Pro-300), Canon recommends doing one sheet at a time for 60lb matte papers (though for papers with a satin or gloss coating they say up to 10 sheets). I will say though, that I have have on a couple of occasions used the Pro-1000 with a few sheets of 60lb Polar Matte successfully.
It working with any of those will depend on a variety of factors like humidity and temperature, how clean the printers rollers are, static charge in the environment, and how flat the paper is. So its something that may work sometimes, but can't be relied upon, unfortunately.
I can say with reasonable certainly that if its not working in your environment on the Pro-1000, it probably wont work on the Pro-200 or -300 either. Though, we did just re-do all of our am1x media information files for the Pro-1000. The new ones have been optimized for better top-feed performance, so installing this new am1x on your Pro-1000 may get you more success on that model.
you can download those am1x media files here (in the same zip file as our ICC color profiles): www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/canon-pro-1000-icc-printer-color-profiles.html
And here is info about installing them to your printer: www.redrivercatalog.com/profiles/Canon-AM1-AM1X-Config-Files.html
I'm not sure how much volume you are doing of 5x7's - but one option if you are doing a lot, would be to print them on roll media on the Pro-4100 and use an auto-cutter. I haven't tested this cutter with our inkjet media, but it would probably work. US Cutter has excellent customer service so they can probably tell you for sure. For reference, the 60lb Premium Matte is 12.28mil / 0.312mm thick.
Hope that helps a little, sorry that there is no great solution on the market."
p.s. The Red River Paper company is amazing. Great paper, excellent customer service. The only place Ill buy ink jet paper from.
Also note, I just did some 5x7 folded cards, so 10x7 cut sheets on matte. And the Canon Pro 1000 auto fed 40 of them with zero error. so...I think in the future I may only buy 10x7 cut sheets and just trim them with my rototrim if I need 5x7 cards.
@@SidLafferty I can't thank you enough. I really appreciate the time you have taken to write back again. I'm still in a loop, unfortunately. I'm in Australia so getting paper from Red River Paper would be too costly due to shipping I think, but I will certainly take a look. The OKI Pro will do the heavier stocks (and white - awesome), but we're talking $17,000 for the printer. I would actually go for it with finance, but the ink is astronomical and from all the reviews I've read the registration is awful and I'll be fighting against it to do double-sided invitations. I do keep coming back to the Canon 1000. I believe the ink is cheaper if I go the 1000 over the 300. I'm even thinking I might wait for the EPSON UV A3. It would be slow going and I'd have to babysit, but then I could do spot colour and white ink. The new UV printer that is due around October looks insane and well below the price of what is out there at the moment. For example the A4 is $11,000 and the next cheapest in the market is $18,000 and doesn't even have a bed of A4.To print an A3 size costs cents so the ink is cheap as chips.It might be a good way to test the market, while giving me the option to do way more things. If the invitation side picks up then maybe I look at leasing a beast like a Ricoh that will handle the cardstock, and white and spot colour, etc. Again - I really appreciate your time. I hope you had a great weekend 😊