We use LaserJet III Si's, and LaserJet 5 Si.
We usually design the form with Formation, but we do have preprinted cheks
at the bottom of one of our forms, and we also experience the dreaded
vertcal registration problem. It wasn't 2/3 lines though, more like 2/3
millimeters. We just made the boxes bigger on the next print run. :)
 
A warning for anyone moving to laser:- get your stationery printers VERY
involved in the design/test/redesign cycle. The people that do cut sheet pre
printed documents are not the same people that do tractor-fed continuous
forms and often have no idea what grief it causes poor programmers trying to
fit text into forms that were never designed for dumb laser printers!
 
Neil Harvey
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>I don't have any production flowing through the output queues yet,
>but the C40D seems to do a good job printing reports on plain paper.
>Preprinted forms are another story.
>
>We have preprinted color invoices that are printed on a 2680A laser
>printer.  We planned on pre-bursting these forms and printing
>invoices on the resulting single sheets.  The big problem we are
>having is with registration.  The paper feeder seems to allow
>approximately 2/3 of a line of play in vertical placement.  This
>is enough to print data outside of required boxes and to move the
>remittance scan line out of range of the scanner.
>
>Any operational tips from those who have been using this beast?
>I hadn't heard of this until two days ago when our HP CE came
>out to service the 2680.  Anyone care to share what else they
>are doing to utilize preprinted forms?
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