Do colour laser printers work well with parchment and silk thread papers?
Some general observations: Textured paper doesn’t work well with either heavy toner coverage or delicate lines. My experience in this regard has mainly to do with linen papers, but your silk thread paper looks like it could be a problem (that’s why it includes the printer-compatible vellum). As for parchment, the main problem is making sure it’s sturdy enough to not get stuck in the printer. To combat this when printing on delicate tracing paper, I always use a “carrier” sheet to pull the tracing paper through and keep it flat. Basically tape the delicate or oddly shaped paper to a regular letter-sized sheet with removable Scotch tape. Of course, this was for one-off designs. I wouldn’t want to go through that setup if I was printing in any quantity at all. You can almost certainly get samples of the paper. Before buying a printer, I’d visit a Kinkos and run a print test on their color printer to check the quality for any obvious problems. From my design school experience, this works b
