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Good price/advice for new SP-300V?
Hi All,
I’m pretty new to the world of solvent and eco-solvent based printers.
I’m looking to invest into an entry level printer/cutting system and have cornered things down to the Roland Versacamm SP-300V as I’m lead to believe its fairly noob friendly, economical to run and at a good price point.
Looking around and talking to a few dealers the general price seems to stick at £6.5k, it this what others are paying or should I be playing the price game to get a better figure? Should I be gunning for some included Roland care in the price as well or anything else?
Also (I know this is a difficult q to answer), what are the typical ink running costs like per square meter (roughly!)??
Thanks Guys, great board by the way learning LOADS by the minute!
Pete
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3 Replies
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I got my sp300v 10months ago, best bit of kit I have spent my money on. The colours using roland colour swatch and MD5 are fantastic, the ink is great and wastes very little when cleaning. Roland eco sol max inks @£60 for 440 carts !!! fantastic. Roland support fantastic and no I don’t work for them !!. I paid less than that for mine although I see there now priced around £6995 !!!!
Shop around and get a deal there were some deals with lots of free media !
Richps printer should come with 12 months roland silver care
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you forgot to say where you got it from rich
chris
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sfxpete,
The SP300 is a good buy at double it’s list price, in my view. We’ve had ours for about 4 years, and it works hard. I typically go through 30 to 60 metres of media printed per week.
One of the problems we had was a pump failing. This was due to our machine being an older version, and the failure was caused by the newer ( and 10 times better ) ecosol Max inks. Newer machines do not have this problem. Even so, I could carry on printing on the machine while waiting for the "Max-proof" pump – I left the covers off, and manually did the pumping with a syringe!! ( It used to have 2 pumps, but the replacement is a single, bigger pump) Replacement cost – about GBP 100
The only other problems was a scan motor failure. About GBP 150 I think.(which occurred at about 1600 motor hours ) This unfortunately caused a PC board to burn as well (rare) and pushed repair cost a bit!! The ribbon cable also needed replacing once (cost – about GBP 10)
ALL the repairs were done by myself. It requires no "magic knowledge" to work on these machines. Just go slow, take pictures, and re-assemble in reverse order!
Ink costs are low. It depends on the ink coverage, but I would say on a long term average the ink cost is less than half the price of the cheapest media you print on. Vinyl cost + 50% should cover you for all you running costs.
There is a reason for these machines being the benchmark entry level printer / print cut combination. It is almost the "Model T Ford" of digital printing. DP to the messes!!
Good piece of kit. Buy it. I wish we bought the SP 540 in stead of the SP 300 though….
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