Will ink jet photo paper work in a laser printer satisfactorily?

I thought you could use ink jet photo paper in a laser printer, but not the other way around, is this true?

Inkjet photo paper has various coatings that would be incompatible with a laser printers heating. You could damage the printer.
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1. Insert the photo paper into the photo/envelope feeder with the side to be printed on
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EDIT: just noticed that the original post is over 4 years old! However, for anyone stumbling across this with a similar problem, it may be useful (I experienced exactly what the original post describes when I forgot to set the paper type to Photo).
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OK, that makes more sense.
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These steps I got from an iPad, on an Android device it is a little different.
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Touch paper size to to change it to 8.5 x 11 in. Touch more options to change the paper type.
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