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Help with colorcamm pcn-50
Hi all,
I am after a Roland Colorcamm pnc-50.
I would just like to know how much I can buy one of these second user and whether I would be able to get drivers for it as i know its an old machine. also I know it uses the cassetes so would these be solvent based? Also what else apart from vinyl can it print on??
Thank you
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quote :I am after a Roland Colorcamm pnc-50WHY
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apparently a better head then the proceeding 2 colorcamms and wanted a budget, efficient printer and cutter. which i cou pick up. the proceeding 2 colorcamms have head problems apparently.
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unfortunately you have been mislead.
the heads are similar but the 60 and 600 were far better in every way.
all were based on the alps – citizen desk top head and shared the carts.
the 5000 and 50 were poor at best (i did have a 5000) and bought a 60 the day they came out, i still use it today, the 600 is better still the heads are still available around £400 and last if looked after around 15000m.these cost about £50 to print a sq mt in process print so not cheap to run but for small spot colour stuff are fine.
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wow! thats expensive!! Are they solvent based? I found someone who said they sold a pcn-50 for £575 on flea bay so why so much for an old machine??
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quote Phillip Patterson:wow! thats expensive!! Are they solvent based? I found someone who said they sold a pcn-50 for £575 on flea bay so why so much for an old machine??Phillip these machines are not the same as most other machines on the market, they don’t use a liquid ink like a dye/pigment machine or a solvent machine. They are not the sort of machine to use for general sign or printing work as they are far to expensive to run for that sort of work.
Unless you have a particular need for something that can’t be done properly with a solvent machine your best bet would be to forget about them.Like the edge or dx4 they are a thermal transfer machine, the reason they still hold their value even though they are an older machine is because there is not much else on the market that will do as good a job for certain applications.
Chris runs eco solvent machines which probably do the bulk of his printing work and the PC60 will be reserved for special jobs.
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Chris is correct, the PC-50 was not as good as the PC-60 and it was slower too, because ribbons had to be changed for each colour, however it did produce acceptable quality for labels of about business card size. I imagine there are still drivers availble somewhere.
I have a PC-50 in it’s original box and I’d love someone to offer me £400 for it 😀
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there you go, drivers on the rolandg.com site up to XP
steve have a go stick it on the bay
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Steve, stick it on ebay with a reserve, they still fetch good money on ebay and if yours is in such good condition I bet it would go well over 400.
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Martin what kind of advantages do these machines offer?
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