The Oki 9650 is a good machine for business cards, as it can handle up to 350gsm board. Other machines such as the Xante Illumina are based on the same Oki engine, and have supposedly been tweaked to handle even thicker boards, but these are widely perceived to cause reliability problems. So best to stick with the Oki and the 350gsm. The best paper I've found for business cards is Conqueror CX22 350gsm. This is a very high bulk, high stiffness, and high smoothness board, but it will still go through the printer easily and takes toner well. It's very expensive though, so don't waste any!
On very thick boards, the printer has some trouble holding registration on parts of the sheet. If you run an SRA3 (320x450) sheet through, it tends to hold register at the grip end and the back end, and lose it in the middle. The solution is to cut the SRA3 sheet down to 320x150mm - that way it holds register pretty well for all of the sheet. This should still be loaded with the 320mm edge forward - set up the sheet in the printer driver as 320 wide x 150 long. And test it first before you chop up too much paper!
See the feed direction in the pic - the printer is under the pile of boxes! For more info on digital print & other techniques see my website www.prod-ctr.co.uk.
See the feed direction in the pic - the printer is under the pile of boxes! For more info on digital print & other techniques see my website www.prod-ctr.co.uk.
