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Just wanted to share my frustrations with printing on my invites.  I have both antique gold and ivory (I forget the official name) stardream envelopes, and I tried both on my Epson Photo Style 900.  I was pleasantly surprised to see that I could print specifically on 5x7 and 3.5x5 paper, and the ink did not bleed as badly as I thought.  Also it didn't smear after drying for about 30 seconds, which was my biggest concern.  HOWEVER, the ink is not very saturated due to the low level of absorbtion on this type of paper.  Still, I would be able to live with it since it looks good enough for the rsvp envelopes.

Biggest problem?  Cat hair.  Yep.  Damn cats.  The printer is ruined, there is just no way to get all the tiny cat hairs and dust specs out of the printer, so there are flecks of ink all over everything I print.  I could tell it to clean the print heads a million times and it wouldn't get rid of it.  Grrr.  I'm going to try a laser printer.  It should be fine.

Does anyone have any advice about digital printing on stardream envelopes?

It wouldn't work.  If you had a cat, you probably wouldn't have to ask how it got in there, lol. It gets everywhere!  I doubt the pressurized air would work because of how the printer is built- way too many nooks and crannies.

In the end, for those curious, laser printing worked like a dream.  It took three hours since I had to feed in each envelope by hand, front and back, plus the rsvp envelopes, but it looks amazing and crisp.