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Advice on a cheap Seiko 64s colour painter printer, please?
Hey guys
I’m looking at buying an old Seiko 64s color painter to get me started doing my own in-house digital prints, just wondered what everyone thought of them?
Is there anything I need to check? Are they prone to problems?
Ideally I would like a newer Roland or mimaki but I don’t do enough digital prints at the moment to warrant the cost and this color painter has come up relatively cheap.
It’s a huge printer so it will allow me to do everything and I’ve also got a graphtec 120 so I can do a lot of the contour cuts myself unless the print is over 1200.
I’ve been weighing up my options,
1: Continue to outsource until the cost accumulates making it affordable to buy my own printer. This is ok for the larger prints, but anything small like small signs, 1-off banners, t-shirt prints get really expensive and I can’t really compete on price.
2: Buy a cheap solvent printer which will allow me to print the smaller items as well as the larger prints and once I accumulate more business then upgrade to the Roland or mimaki
Thanks
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From what I remember they are one of the early machines and they do require quite a lot of upkeep to keep them printing nice
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We have a new Colour Painter, and can’t rate it highly enough. There’s a post on here about it.
I would speak to Signmaster Systems, as they sell new Seiko’s and also Part Ex them, against new machines. I don’t know what stock they carry, but I’m sure Jay will keep you in mind if anything comes up?
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Daniel
you would be better looking for a cheap Versacamm and just out source your larger prints you can maintain a Roland yourself if you are savvyKev
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Thanks Kevin
That’s what i’m thinking.
I think i’ll hold off for now then seeing as it’s a very old machine
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Hi Dan. I did reply to your email but I think you have made the right decision in holding off for now.
Stafford
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