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Canon wide format pigment printers – advice
Don’t see these mentioned much on the boards with much of the posts being related to solvent printers but was recently blown away by photographic quality during a demo which surpassed anything I have ever seen on solvent.
Price is also very keen at the moment and the new pigmented inks seem to be sufficiently waterproof and economic to make these suitable decal printers. I am used to "proper" spot colours with our Edge and the samples printed onto matt vinyl were the closest I’ve seen to this density of colour.
Can anyone advise on printing to vinyl, backlit, fabrics etc (anything other than paper) and best sources for the media?
Thanks
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Is there anyone out there with a similar printer that has printed either Vinyl or backlit media?
Thanks
Colin
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i have a epson 9500 running pigmented and just had to move to solvent because of materials water based materials are just not up to vehicle and normal sign use. but you are right about the quality differance.
so horses for courses
chris
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Thanks Chris, we produce a lot of decals for our sister company, mainly for modellers, so the quality is a big issue for us. The decals on models don’t get the same treatment as vehicle graphics so will probably last long enough without lamination. The only vinyls I have seen so far that can be used with pigment printers seem quite a bit thicker than the norm and this may be a problem for conformability over the curved surfaces.
Colin
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