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does anyone have any good/bad inputs with mimaki JV5-160S?
Hi Guys, judging from the lack of posts regarding this machine it seems they’re not very common (I realize they’ve not been out long) so I thought I post my impressions of it so far (compared to a Roland SP540V as that’s the entirety of my experience with large format)
first point is – oh my god its fast. I mean really really fast, even on 24 pass it still runs a hell of a lot quicker than the Roland. Run it on 6 pass and you’d better be on the ball setting up the take-up unit otherwise you’re knackered and will be buried in media very quickly.
second point – are mimaki machines generally prone to having trouble with media wrinkling or is our media sub standard? running some poster paper I had to feed the material back if the machine was going to be stood still for a couple of minutes otherwise the media would wrinkle enough for the head to skim the ink off.
I have to say its far easier to use than the roland, I haven’t had to change the media feed compensation on it yet and I’ve run canvas, pvc banner, poster paper and a couple of different vinyls.
We have Wasatch doing the ripping and this is very good (reliable) compared to Versaworks (nasty crash hungry thing that it is)
Adjusting colour when the need arises is very straightforward with wasatch too and more precise than versaworks for my money.
We have/are suffering a couple of teething troubles at the moment but I would imagine thats to be expected from a new machine.
hmm, I’ll post more stuff as I think of it 🙂
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