RENA AS-150 Seed Pack Printer — Small Media Printing on a Single-Belt Fixed-Head Printer
The RENA AS-150 was designed with seed pack printing in mind, and it’s still the printer we reach for first when a client brings us a small packet. It’s compact, it’s the most affordable new address printer we sell, and it has almost all the technology of its larger siblings.
Comparing it with the AS-450 and AS-650? See Seed Packet Printers: RENA AS-150 vs AS-450 vs AS-650. Want to understand how a fixed-head printer lays ink on a packet? Watch our five-minute guide, What Can a Fixed-Head Address Printer Print?
Why it works on small media: three HP 45-type cartridges give the AS-150 a 1.5″ print path across the piece, and a single transport belt carries the packet under the printhead from feed to exit. The belt keeps the packet flat and moving steadily, so the print lands where the layout says it should — the thing that trips up printers built around a #10 envelope.
The AS-150’s menu system gives quick access to the features you use every day: clear the batch counter, purge on the first piece, and Print Enhancement. The nozzles positioned between two lines of text are rarely used and tend to clog; then you print a g or a y and the descender is missing. Print Enhancement can reduce or eliminate that.
RENA AS-150 highlights
- 3-cartridge fixed head, 1.5″ print path (print area up to 1.5″ × 9.5″)
- Media from 2.125″ × 4″ up to 6.5″ × 9.5″, up to 0.020″ thick
- Rated up to 5,500 #10 envelopes per hour. Plan on roughly 60% of the rated figure in day-to-day production (about 3,300 #10s or 4,500 packets an hour) once you count hopper refills and normal print quality.
- Single transport belt in contact with the piece the whole way through
- Feeder holds up to 300 #10 envelopes, load-on-the-fly
Use it for: seed packets, coin envelopes, small cards, and standard mail pieces within its media range.
Ink: MRH45A standard black (compares to HP C51645A). Parts and supplies for every machine we sell are at SuppliesForMailers.com.
Send us your packets — we’ll run samples
The fastest way to answer “can it print this?” is to run your actual piece. Email us a few blanks of what you mail — envelopes, postcards, seed packets, cards — plus a marked-up copy showing what goes where and roughly how many you run. We’ll lay it out in Bulk Mailer Designer or FlexMail, print your samples on the right machine, check every bank and cartridge seam, and email you photos or a short video of the result before you spend a dollar.
Email us your samples request — we reply by email with photos or video of your pieces.
See the RENA AS-150 product page for current pricing and options.