Printing Trains

Chris likes trains. So it seemed appropriate to make him a birthday card with a picture of a train on it. I found this picture amongst a bunch that I took in Haworth nearly ten years ago.

I tried to print it onto thin card with my lovely HP laser printer. It did not go well. Lots of black toner everywhere. I really thought I’d broken the printer.

Fortunately a few tests confirmed that all was well. The printer was just having trouble with the card stock I was using. Turns out that the answer was to do just what you should do. Tell the printer you are using a different kind of paper. When I selected “thin card” it worked a treat. It runs the printer more slowly so that the toner has more time to heat up the card and fuse the toner to it.