Customer Reviews for Staples - Postcards, 5.5" x 4.25", 400/Box - Matte White
Customer Rating
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JAMMED MY PRINTER!!!!!
on March 6, 2008
Posted by: Paula K.
I have an all in one HP printer - I used postcards in it for some time. I just bought the Staples brand and printed about 10 sheets before the printer would no longer print them. The card stock gets stuck in the rollers and causes a lot of wasted sheets because the rollers get covered with ink and I was not a happy consumer!!
This product performed very poorly. I have never had this many problems printing postcards. I could not print more than 10 sheets without it jamming in my printer. Then it got so bad that I could not use the duplexer in my printer either.
Price was great.Quality great. Only suggestion would be to put some kind of a sign or symble around the boarder on the front side of the page. That would makeit easier to be sure you are putting the correct side up when adding the paper to the printer.
FIRST PROBLEM: I had the same problem as another reviewer i.e. many lost cards due to printer continually jamming. Changed printer; fewer lost cards but lost a lot of cards in total! SECOND PROBLEM: Product box states "easy-tear perforations for smooth edges." The edges were not "crips" but ragged. Had to "shave" most cards. The U.S. mail processing machines added to that problem. CONCLUSION: I printed postcards before and have not encountered this problem so it must be the product. I did not have the luxury of getting other cards due to time constraints of the mailing deadline.[...]
I really like this product because of the perforations. I used to make my own post cards with plain card stock and a paper cutter. This makes it much easier. The only downside was the perforations were not easy to tear if you are trying to tear more than one page at a time.
This product has a coating on the card stock that even though it is lightweight it can jam in machines. This made larger print jobs impossible. We had numerous paper jams and the rollers did not work well with the coated material on this cardstock. It just would not feed right. We replaced rollers on our Xerox just for this job and still it did not work well.
Cards printed great on my Canon Pixma printer duplex. Looked good; color sharp. But did not hold up well in the mails: the Post Office sorting machine ripped or peeled back the edges of 30% on average.