Weddingbee Blog

*Envies is my pet name for envelopes. Yeah, I’m weird.

Now that I admitted my STD-printing flub, I can move along to a part that I’m actually fairly pleased with––the envelopes. Not to be outdone, the envelopes had to fail a little first.

While printing the bad boys on our super hawt printer, we kept having the problem of ink smears. It wasn’t coming from the text itself, but just random inkjet blotches. We were good little children, and kept re-using the same two test envelopes, which is why you see highlighted and circled blotches. We had to know what was new and what was old fail.

We figured that it had to be one of two things– thickness, or uneven transfer because of the wonky bits on the back of an envie. After running a piece of chipboard through the printer and seeing it print flawlessly, we realized it was the latter. Oh, fail of fails. Were we going to have to ghetto-rig the printer? It seemed so. Mr. Scissors and I devised a plan that would surely end in tears– rubber-cementing the envelopes down to stock, running them through, then detaching them from said stock. It had disaster written all over it.

In order to hopefully save our sanity, I decided to flip through the printer’s manual. Whoops, we forgot to check “envelope” in the print settings. We wasted almost two hours trying to go around our elbows to get to our asses, when a simple manual-read would have saved us. We were then able to then print all of our envelopes in about 20 minutes. Such silly children.

Moral of the story?

I know a billion other people had trouble printing their invitation envelopes. What happened with yours? Printer flub, human flub, paper flub, or just bad luck?