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help and advice
Hi i am new to this forum and we run a marquee hire company. we are looking for a printer to print direct to pvc to make up our banners currently as we are out in the sticks its hard to get a quick service so we are looking at investing in our own machinery, any advice is most welcome.
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I am not the best person to answer this…… but my gut feeling is, if you only want banners, is not to bother. I believe a printer needs to be running all the time to be cost effective, and it will be running all the time in a sign business. Even if you are running off 1 banner a day, it’s not much work for the printer. A PVC printer is not the same as having an inkjet in the office. I would stick to what you know, marquee hire, and let some sign people help you.
There are plenty of online banner companies where you can order a banner and have it delivered next day so out in the sticks isn’t a problem. If you are out in the sticks you are not going to get much passing trade for extra business for your printer.
All meant in the best possible taste 😀
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I agree with David, I’m a signmaker full time and I don’t think its worth getting a printer. With so many companies out there falling over themselves to sell digital print, banners or otherwise at prices that just don’t warrant investing in your own kit let alone the learning curve and maintenance
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If your only going to be printing a few banners then its not worth the investment in a print machine.
There’s plenty of money to be made if printing is your main business despite the competition in it, but i think there is just as much competition in vinyl sign making.
There is maintenance to consider for a print machine.. but its no big deal, and for me the learning curve for printing was easy compared with cutting and applying vinyl to signs which i sub out to a local vinyl graphics firm.
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Unfortunately its not just banners we also manufacture marquees and our clients are wanting there logo on the panels we make. at present we are ordering 100-200 labels a week of all designs and customers want new logos made. There are not many makers around that can do what we do so we are and continue to be very busy, so thanks for info so far but we have put money aside and have to spend before end of finance year if you understand 😀 what we are looking for must print to pvc 650 any help much appreciated
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