Comments on: I have the printer, now I want gold!!

Question: I have the printer, now I want gold!!

MarvinJ — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:05:29 -0800

Is there anyway to get a gold text print from a colour laser printer?

So after my previous question, I bought the HP2605, and it's working well indeed, thanks mefi!
Now I want to stretch it! Is there anyway of printing gold or gold-ish text with it?

By: fatllama

fatllama — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:20:07 -0800

I like Laser Foil. It only requires a black and white laser printer.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:16:09 -0800

That Laser Foil link looks cool! I had not heard of that.

If you don't want to go the foil route, maybe you can print a color chart of all the varieties of goldish colors and pick one that works best. Unfortunately, the closest you can come to gold is orange or yellowish. I use a $30,000 Xerox color copier/printer and have never gotten anything that truly looks gold. It's probably because our brains say gold=shiny, so non-shiny-gold=orange.

By: neustile

neustile — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:30:59 -0800

Seconding the foil.

By: clango

clango — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:59:31 -0800

Didn't Alps make a printer that took color, black gold, silver and Pantone cartridges back in the day? (though that foil looks cool)

By: TedW

TedW — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:10:29 -0800

Clango, I had an Alps MD-5000 that had very good output and had foil cartridges that looked great, but it was a pain in the butt to use due to frequent jams, crappy software, and so on. Also very slow by today's standards. It was discontinued and even before then supplies were hard to come by. It was a design with a lot of potential, though; I have a color laser and photo inkjet now that can't do everything the MD-5000 could (when it worked).

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:37:24 -0800

Laser foil works well, it is a very mature technology. The first time I used it was on an original Laser Jet. (Not II or 4 or something, just HP LaserJet)