Printer vs. Cardstock

[Sakrison]

My HP Envy 4500 printer does a great job printing models, but it has one notable flaw: It doesn't feed cardstock very well. The card often stalls just at the point where it has to bend around a corner inside the printer. The result is that the image is partly "printed" off the page or not printed at all.

I solved the problem by making a "paper pusher" or "cheater" to feed each sheet of cardstock. It's made of scrap 1mm card. Instructions and a full-size template are below.

It takes just a short push to get the card around the corner. It works well with 65-lb, 80-lb, and 110-lb cardstock. The only disadvantage is that I have to feed each sheet individually, so printing multiple sheets takes a little longer. But it beats wasting card and ink on misprints.