[Dx4win] Re: Dx4win Label printer

[Buffettcop at aol.com]

Cesar and Group

I use a laser printer to  direct print on the QSL cards.

I have used an inkjet in the past.   It prints a less than desirable results. 
 It will blur if it accidentally  comes in contact with a liquid source.  

I was given a Samsung  ML-1210 laser about 2 years ago.  The comments about a 
professional looking  QSL keep coming over and over.  The toner is fused to 
the paper with little  to no chance of it being blurred like an inkjet.

If I need to print 1 QSL  I drop in 1 card and print just one.  

When the cartridge is empty I  buy toner after market and recharge the 
cartridge myself. Some have been  recharged 8 or 9 times. Toner comes in 90 gr. 
bottles for about $4 US or  less.  A new toner cartridge is about $70+. "Recharged 
cartridges" are  about $50 in the stores or via Internet sales. 

The biggest cost has been  for Alcohol cleaner sheets at Staples or Office 
Depot. They run about $4 each  but are worth the costs for a clean printer.  

End result is a very  clean, permanent, professionally looking QSL at very 
low cost.   

Most stores use thermal register receipts.  Looking at old sales  receipts 
months later they have faded. It would be very discouraging to pull out  the QSL 
card years later and the thermal label is unreadable. 

Overall I  would say a direct print with a laser printer sales time, money 
and produces a  better result.  I can print much more with a printer than label  
maker.  

I'd leave the label maker to printing address labels for  envelopes not for 
the QSL information. 

73,
Tony N2MFT 



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