Print media guidelines

Printing on letterhead

Check with the manufacturer or vendor to determine whether the preprinted letterhead you have chosen is acceptable for laser printers.

Page orientation is important when printing on letterhead. Use the following table for help when loading letterhead in the print media sources.

Print media source or

 

Top of page

 

Print side

Portrait

Landscape

process

Tray 1

Face down

Front of tray

Left side of tray

(standard tray)

 

 

 

Tray 2

 

 

 

(optional 250-sheet or

 

 

 

500-sheet drawer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optional 2000-sheet

Face down

Front of the drawer

Not applicable

drawer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duplex printing using

Face up

Logo faces rear of tray

Not applicable

tray 1 or tray 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multipurpose feeder

Face up

Logo enters the printer first

Left side of tray

(including feeding

 

 

 

individual sheets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duplex printing using

Face down

Logo enters the printer last

Not applicable

the multipurpose

 

 

 

feeder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selecting prepunched paper

Prepunched paper brands can differ in the number and placement of holes and in manufacturing techniques.

Use the following guidelines to select and use prepunched paper:

Test paper from several manufacturers before ordering and using large quantities of pre- punched paper.

Paper should be punched at the paper manufacturer and not drilled into paper already packaged in a ream. Drilled paper can cause jams when multiple sheets feed through the printer.

Prepunched paper can include more paper dust than standard paper. Your printer may require more frequent cleaning and feed reliability may not be as good as that of standard paper.

Weight guidelines for prepunched paper are the same as for nonpunched paper.

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Lexmark 630 manual Printing on letterhead, Selecting prepunched paper