REVLAR(TM) Waterproof Laser Printer Customizable Luggage tags 8.5x11" 7.7mil 4-up

• Customizable Luggage or Equipment tags material prints in any laser printer - 4 to a page - Durable, tear resistant and waterproof to withstand rain, heat and temperature variations; deters grease, solvent and chemicals
• Superior laser image quality with the appearance, smoothness and printability of standard paper; works in any standard laser printer
• Cost-effective to use; more affordable-and faster to produce-than laminated materials
• Long lasting to save on replacement costs
• Print and Customize Door hangers Whenever You Want!

When these print correctly they look great and are tough as nails, unfortunately they are difficult to work with.

There were two main issues with the Revlar which were consistent across multiple high quality laser printers (both color and monochrome)

1) Printing was quite unreliable I believe because of issues with heat transfer causing poor annealing of the toner. The die cuts allowed too much heat through and caused blotching and what looks like bleeding sometimes well inside the 1/8" margins suggested. In other areas the thick material prevented sufficient heating and resulted in very light or blotchy printing

2) The other issue that made the Revlar tags un-useable for our purposes was the thickness and slickness prevented automatic feeding (even in a tray specially engineered for thick materials). Approximately half the time the sheets were misaligned or simply not fed on every printer in every tray we tried. We do not have the time to waste manually feeding sheets for two sided printing.

Our waste on the first 100 sheets was about 50% and although a lot of that can be attributed to a learning curve even after we got the hang of it and adjusted our graphics margins way in we probably lost 20%

We are using the much thinner 073-40-02 Revlar paper for another laser printing application and without the cuts and thickness we aren''t experiencing the low print quality, poor annealing and die cut "bleed". It''s difficult to autofeed but we do have one printer that does so reliably. Not sure if tags half the thickness would be feasible, but it might solve 2 out of 3 of our problems thick sheet doesn''t anneal well or feed well but thin might make the die cut more of a problem...