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pc 600 cartridge usage help
what is the average cartridge use for the pc600.
got my pc600 today played about with it ,printed 100 labels approx 200mm x 150mm with adout 8 words in red in this area used 4 yellow and 4 magenta is this normal? 😕 or do i have to put some settings in order.
Also got lines in different colours when i did some self test prints put the offset -30 and then +30 and the lines are the same.
i am new to printing much help is apreciated
thanks Ian -
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dont price it per sticker, you will never make money mate…
to give an indication of pricing you should be looking for £20 per A4 printed full colour. & £15 per A4 wil multiple stickers.
i.e. if customer wants multiple stickers… you can fit 10 on an A4, then its £15 for 10 stickers. if you can fit one, its £15 for one.
whoever if someone comes in for a sticker. 1no. and thats it. ide charge £20 for it, £25 if i had to set up with contour cut. extra, if we had to setup artwork. -
You need to set your settings to print spot colours as you have it set to print YMC so it is using multiple passes to print one colour.
Rob you been on the Breezers tonight (?) (?) (?) (?) 😉
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Depending on ribbon length , each 90m cart does about .74 sq meters , for a cmyk job you use 4 carts pers sq meter.
There is some saving in terms of yield by using the ribbon saver. If you take your labels , at 200 x 150mm , the area printed is 0.03m squared and 100 of them is 3 m squared which does equate to 4 carts , considering you used cmyk to get red , you have used 8 carts (as mike said , set it to use a single colour , you get spot red carts)
Essentially without vinyl , the cost of those stickers was pretty high , even at 4 carts or using refil ribbons , the cost per decal to print is not great.
a 90m spot refill ribbon costs us around 10 quid , thus the labels cost at best , 40 pence each to print , add in the vinyl and you are probably looking at 60+ pence and a selling price of at LEAST 2-3x that.
In your case , the lables will have cost almost a quid each.
The better thing to do on these machines is very small die cut shaped stuff and metallic spots on dark , once you get into the type of thing you did , you compete with other technologies. For example on my inkjet , even at a real high price , those decals would sell at 1.25 -1.50 and would cost me 18-22p and thats using a 10 yr premium vinyl.
If the lines do not dissapear with the pitch adjustment and are white , I am afraid that they might be a blown head. -
Thanks for the info,
just one other thing I am using flexi pro 7 and when I press send ,message comes up “there are no icc profiles selected for this device proceed without colour correction” yes/no.cheers ian 🙁
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