8500 All-in-One Printing envelopes

Do I have to remove all of the paper from the feeder to print one envelope?  or several envelopes?  I tried to print one envelope by placing it on a stack of paper in the feeder - it jammed.  Had a 6500 AIO and sometimes it worked with 1 envelope on a stack of paper - sometimes it jammed.  I don't print a lot of envelopes.

The page here indicates that the paper should be removed from the input and output trays.  To prevent jams probably requires the side slider to be snugged up against the envelopes to prevent them skewing as they are fed into the printer.
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