Printing on Vellum

You have to stand there and take each piece and lay it somewhere to dry because if they stack on top of eachother like a normal pile up they will bleed/smudge. And they take a long time to dry. Sometimes the bar inside your printer gets inky and you have to take it apart and wipe it down with a cloth, but you should be OK if its a modern printer

Also, i had to tell my printer it was a 5 by 7, not a 6.38 by 8, because my printer would only accept its own sizes that existed in its paper size options, so i had to fiddle with centering and margins before it came out right

The wiping the cartridge down is what worries me. I was hoping that some one had used a laser jet printer and i wont have to worry as much about the smudging.

Found this maybe it will help you better decide

http://crafts.creativebug.com/print-vellum-paper-1776.html

You can go to any local sign/print shop and have this done.

I am pretty sure the cost will be cheaper then you purchasing ink and paper plus time spent cleaning your printer

I printed one sheet using the laser printer at work, and it turned out great-- no smudging and the print looked really sharp. I can't attest to the quality of an inkjet or to the quality of printing multiple pages using a laser, but my experience was really good.

Thank you Christi! That is very helpful. Even of I print a few each day I am glad it worked out

I am in the process of doing this for my 22 wedding table signs with our photo information! I cut a size a little bigger than what is needed, and literally tape it flat onto a piece of regular printer paper & feed it in! I made a document in Microsoft word, so I printed it out once on a regular sheet of paper so I knew how big of a piece of vellum to cut and where to tape it onto the paper. Make sure to put your printer settings to "best" rather than normal or draft! You'll get a saturated color this way. And when they're done, I let it sit for a few minutes then I slightly wave it back and forth to speed up the drying process! Hope it helps!