After printing thousands and thousands of index cards for various purposes (and killing 7 or 8 printers in the process), I think we decided the Canon ip4200 was the best way to go for a pretty cheap printer that does it. Our current one has lasted about 4000 cards and is holding up pretty well.
The biggest downsides are that it has a gagillion ink carts (5 of them to be exact, although photo black, which is, oddly the one labeled BK not the one labeled PHBK...) and that the paper tray isn't great (we use straight-through feed from the top pretty much 100% of the time.
It even has a duplexer for 8.5x11 sheets (doesn't work with Index cards - we tried!).
Retail is about 100 bucks including a set of ink carts (but not a cable of course, noone includes cables with printers anymore). The US version doesn't support printing on CD-roms, but I think some of the international ones do.
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Date: 2006-08-04 04:34 pm (UTC)The biggest downsides are that it has a gagillion ink carts (5 of them to be exact, although photo black, which is, oddly the one labeled BK not the one labeled PHBK...) and that the paper tray isn't great (we use straight-through feed from the top pretty much 100% of the time.
It even has a duplexer for 8.5x11 sheets (doesn't work with Index cards - we tried!).
Retail is about 100 bucks including a set of ink carts (but not a cable of course, noone includes cables with printers anymore). The US version doesn't support printing on CD-roms, but I think some of the international ones do.