Advice on the New Roland BN20 Print & Cut machine?

[Martin Pearson]

It was mentioned a couple of weeks ago Graham when someone asked about a desktop printer, don’t think there was a lot of info about it just that someone had seen it at the sign show.

[Graham Shand]

I am told that it is in the region of 5k, seems a lot for a desktop printer, must do some amazing tricks at that price, I have also been told it is now available, suppliers of media have come up with 20inch printable vinyl, which I understand does not require lamination and is supposed to be good for 3 years, but in Scotalnd 2 weeks ?

[Martin Pearson]

I’m guessing it is a solvent printer then Graham, any solvent printer supplier will tell you that the prints are good outdoor for 3 years without lamination but the truth is without lamination then anything on a vehicle will probably last less due to the way they are washed. The laminate acts more as an abrasion resistant rather than UV.

5K would be about the price I would expect going by the price of new larger machines and some of the desktop flatbed solvent printers on the market.

Oh and in Scotland it’s only 3 days not 2 weeks :lol1: :lol1:

[Nigel Pugh]

Graham the BN20 was announced / launched last week on the Roland.com website, as of yet no price has been confirmed.

Nigel

[Kevin Flowers]

Graham
it is basically a baby printer to their bigger series of printers aimed at the apparel market hence the 500mm width (common size for Tshirt media). However it uses same inks & media as the larger machines so is capable of producing outdoor graphics

Kev

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[Graham Shand]

Thank you for all the input, now I know what to get the wife for Christmas
regards
Graham

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[Nigel Pugh]

The BN-20 rrp has been announced as £5,499 + Vat, inks are not included !!

Regards
Nigel

[Ian Pople]

How much are a set of inks please.

Ian

[Chris Wool]

best part of £300+vat if you have metalic i would guess

thats £7000 please

[Ian Pople]

woops looks like the after market inks will be the norm.

Ian

[Nigel Pugh]

Ian if you bought 220ml carts then I would say around the £5,750 + Vat, however VersaWorks has been added to the package along with a higher print speed which for CMYK should be around 2 sqm per hour.

Regards
Nigel