Production Printing question

[carrie s]

I currently have a gift/event/business packaging business. I do a lot of wedding favor bags and tags. I currently use an hp deskjet 6940 printer and just purchased an hp 8610 printer. Unfortunately, the new 8610 printer is not working well for printing bags. I currently have to manually feed each bag as it prints. The challenge is is that I have orders in quantities of 200 so it is very time consuming. I am trying to find the best printing solution for my printing needs. I am looking to stay under $1,000 for a machine. I don't know if I need to go the route of a digital press or a production printing machine or what. The whole thing is very confusing. I am basically looking for a machine that can do high volume printing of paper bags (some of the bags can be thick) and tags. It should have a flat feed so the bags don't roll.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!