I’ve got a small greeting card company which is growing – currently we print up to 330gsm card on an Epson SC-P600 and Epson ET7750. We have been in the printing industry for over 40 years printing anything from catalogues, magazines and brochures to business cards and calendars. For example, paper with a weight of 55 gsm will be much, much lighter and thinner than paper weighing 400 gsm. Although paper is not quite as extreme, variations can occur between printed jobs that use different boards that might weigh the same but that have different thicknesses.

I assumed it would be fine in our laser printer, though admittedly it doesn't say either way if they are suitable for inkjet or laser (or both), and disappointingly it's not been a success.Aside from these, the only other suitable machines would be pro photo inkjets which are expensive to run and not designed for large print runs due to the speed they print. It wouldn’t need to handle any thicker than that really but my current printer doesn’t seem to like it!

Do you know of any printers which are capable of printing on the back of greetings cards with apertures. Add in some large and flexible trays, quick speeds and fantastic colour output and this range of machines could be ideal for your card printing needs. These two combine a regular paper with an Inkjet coating receiving layer which is applied directly on the “naked” paper. I have been printing my company artwork on the back of 260gsm, textured aperture cards successfully on an old Canon Pixma ip 3000 for many years. For a laser printer which will print on the same spec you will need to look at the Xerox Phaser 7800dn – https://www.With this in mind, the only machine we can currently recommend is the Samsung M3820, which can also print the same paper weight – https://www.