printing on vellum

[brits4]

I am going to make invitations for my daughter's college music recital and am planning on printing the inside on vellum. Just wondering if there are any tricks and if there is a front or back to vellum. I have tried printing but it came out a bit blurry. Would appreciate any help

Sue

[CajunStamper]

Can you change your printer setting to "transparency?" It will lay down less ink that way and should print clearer. You will have to go into the inner workings of your printer setup to do this.

Ginger

[kimilou]

When you print on vellum you may also need to take out each sheet so that another sheet doesn't smudge the ink. It takes longer for vellum to dry depending on the type of printer you are using.

[CatskillStamper]

they have some vellum paper at Marcos paper that works great.... Doesn't smudge or blurr... (don't remember their address but i'm sure a search would turn it up)... Great paper and super people to deal with

[Sunf1ower]

Hopefully you have a laser printer. The ink dries so quickly almost by the time it's printed! I do feed one sheet through at a time. When I had an ink jet printer I had to take each sheet and lay it out and let it dry for over 10 minutes. If it touched anything it would smudge! Good Luck! It looks so good when you're done!

[lweller]

and supposedly photo-copying is even better on vellum! run it through a copier to print on the vellum. i've heard that this is great!

[kmjenkyns]

at office max they have vellum specifically designed to be run through inkjet printers. it dries super fast and doesn't smear. it's worth its weight in gold!

[Jenmouer]

I bought a pack of the SU vellum and printed on that with my inkjet for baby shower invites I just did- I did one sheet at a time and let them lay out for about 5 minutes to make sure the ink was dry - turned out great

We have a very high tech laser printer since my DH works from our home office and it works great on vellum. I think any good laser printer would work best.

[Patti White]

Hi, I purchased the SU Vellum cardstock and it worked great in the printer, the other vellum smudged on me, but SU's worked great, but you have to make sure it is the cardstock vellum. Hope this helps.

[Sereikastamper]

I am doing the invitations for my brothers wedding and I have found the SU CS Vellum is wonderful...one sheet at a time...and if you are SUPER quick you can throw clear detail embossing Powder on it and make the words embossed...let me tell you...it looks like a million bucks... and it is soooo worth the time to emboss it...I am going to be doing 75 sheets like this...so worth it!!!

[Doris B]

if one side of your vellum is rougher print on that side

[lovemykids]

You also may want to play with your font. I had to switch to a thin font and then my vellum didn't bleed. I also experimented with using print preferences and ended up with transparencies and "draft" settings that worked the best for me.