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IPF8100 Roll-up banners
Hi Guys,
Ok I have had my ipf8100 for about 3 weeks now and things have been going very well. I have been asked to quote for Roll-up displays and pop-up displays today also.
Does anybody have any good contacts for buying the roll-up banner stands only and also are they easy to fit?
i wasn’t going to get the banner laminated and as I have not seen a sample of the banner material yet. does anybody know just how hard wearing it is and should I get it laminated as I don’t want it to be scratched the very first day it’s used, or even for me to scratch it before its even given to the customer.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Gary
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Hi Gary,
Firstly, welcome to the boards, would be nice for you to post a "hello" and introduce yourself when you get a minute!
We get all our "roller banners" from Easystands, just took another 2 pallets from them for an order of 272 that we are in the middle of. Easystands can be found at http://www.easystands.com.
For our "pop-ups" we use Ultima.
On the subject of lamination, we always laminate ours with a deep matt crystal laminate. I know some people do not laminate, however, for the small cost of these (and the volume we sell) we always do.
Hope that helps.
Chris.
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As chris says, easystands for our rollup stands.
we use europoint for our rollup material, grey backed, gloss face.
we do not laminate. -
I buy my Banner stands from plex and print either on HP5500 using material from perfect colours then laminate or print on the Grenadier using material from ADS no laminate.
Depends on time solvent cheaper but takes an age to dry, dye ink print laminate 15 mins later and cut stright away.
Russell.
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I have a Canon ipf9100 (na na nana na) 🙂 and use eurostand display.
Steve
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Thanks for your help everybody. I have been in contact with a couple of the companies mentioned and have received some information back from them and will be placing an order for a few stands to start with.
Thanks for making me feel small steve, ha ha. I was considering the ipf9100 but space didn’t allow me too and to be honest for the money it would have cost I would have considered a solvent printer instead.
the 8100 is a fantastic quality machine and is exactly what I needed to get myself setup. I haven’t actually advertised myself yet and the machine is already paying its way which is nice.
There is a local company that can laminate the sizes I need so will probably be approaching them soon but for the first lot of roller banners I don’t think I will bother.
I got some A4 samples of various banner and blockout materials from Colourbyte who I ordered the machine from so will be trying these out over the weekend and will let you all know how I got on.
Steve, have you tried any of the vinyl materials on any applications yet and if so how did you find them?
The other question is, If I was to purchase a vinyl cutter will I be able to cut around an image printed on the 8100 for signage purposes?
I don’t see why not but always worth asking before investing.
Going to go and post a helllooo now.
Many thanks for your help.
Gary
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Hi Gary
Sorry for taking a while to get back to you.
Ive tried quite a lot of different media, Papergraphics have a good range for the canon printers.
Ask for Mike spencer.
Do you use a rip?
Steve
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Hi Steve,
thanks for getting back to me.
I didn’t bother with the rip. I though that for the amount of posters I will be doing it didn’t warrant getting the rip. I bought a singing and dancing macpro so it rips fast enough through either the supplied layout package or using the photoshop plugin.
I may consider it in the future but I’m not printing posters over night and cutting them in the morning just yet. At the most I am doing maybe 10 A0, 6 A1 and 6 A2 posters per event and not having any trouble. Just printing and trimming as the come out.
Thanks for paper people, I will have a look.
Have you had any experience with outdoor vinyl. I have some signs to do, the are only 700mm x 300mm but they need to be completely waterproof as they are to be used as building signs.
I was thinking about buying a vinyl cutter that can cut the logos out once they have been printed on the 8100 and obviously stick them onto a nice board, but as I’ve never done this before jsut wondered if you’ve done any of that?
Many thanks
Gary
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Ive printed onto vinyl and laminated it for exterior use without problems (So far)
My Main customers are professional portrait photographers
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