Canon

The following guidelines for printing apply to all dry toner based laser/kopier printers.

	Canon imagePress C1

Always fan sheets well before printing.

• Take paticular care when knocking up the sheets not to "bend" the edges and cause the labels to"lift" - discard any sheet that may have been affected.

• If available, the media type settings (found either in the printer drivers, or the stock feed trays) should be set to: HEAVY WEIGHT PAPER or similar (115 - 220 gsm) Coated or Uncoated stock as appropriate.

This is to ensure the correct temperature and speed through the machine. Failure to change the settings may result in poor toner key or mis-feeds. Different models of machine optimum settings will vary, heavyweight, film
etc and the correct setting in one machine may produce unsatisfactory results on another. - please try various settings to achieve the best result for your printer and the image required.

• If no change of media type is available the printer will probably be a desktop model with a low print speed.

• Select the feed tray appropriate to the machine and stock capabilities. The most direct feed path available will normally produce the best results.

Printing polyesters on Canon presses

Due to the very high fusing temperature on Canon presses, polyesters may jam at the fuser.
This can be overcome by running a "lead sheet" of 150 gsm card (or similar) as the first sheet in the run (or dropping the fuser temperature). This tends to drop the fuser temperature sufficiently to "fool the machine" and the polyesters then run without problems. (We are grateful to the Canon users who discovered the solution to this and let us know)