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How are these flag banners printed
Any idea how these are produced. We have a versacamm but surely these weren’t printed on one of these. Have had a couple of enquiries and could do with some info. (?)
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I used to print these at my last job, we did them on a textile printer " a mimaki tx2 " using dyes, I’m not sure if you can print these on a versacamm.. maybe someone else will know this.
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have found with some suppliers they take a while to get printed..
TX2 or Agfa/Gandi Aquajet are printers i know of
I tried printing the on a solvent before… don’t bother its a waste of time.
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Thanks Guys maybe I’ll try and buy them in printed and just pass them on.
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I’ve tried every ‘flag’ material with every setting known for the versacamm trying to do in-house flags.As Dave suggested ‘don’t bother.
Once you see the results next to a dye sub system or a textile printer you realise you have to buy in.
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We buy these complete from Ultima Displays. They will even ship direct to your customer saving two lots of postage charges.
Kind regards
Russell.
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Why do you guys say they cannot be printed with an eco solvent printer?? I print these with excellent results on my Roland printers. I’m printing one on Monday. I’ll take a picture and post it here.
The flag material does not give good results. When I have to print on it, I select the lowest head speed, mono directional, high quality with double overprint. Takes forever, and quality is so-so..
The stuff I’m currently using is called K20. It prints better than anything else on the SP / RS. Solid, vibrant colours.
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where do you K20 from please Gert? and are the results comparable to dye sub or other fabric printers?
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when the mimaki textile printer was out of action, i had to try to print flags using the solvent printer.. it printed but the colours looked washed out and looked terrible like a faded flag, we used a polyester nylon flag material.
If your customer knows what these flags are susposed to look like then they wont be pleased if you print with solvent and they may demand a reprint… it happened at the print firm i was working… a lot of time and money lost.
I have not heard of this K20 material, maybe it does sort of work, but its still a risk.
Gert du Preez.. do you not have problems with your ink soaking through the material using double pass ?
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Andy,
Yes, on flag material you do get some "bleeding" of the ink. That is why I print high quality, with the head speed at it’s slowest setting. On the SP540, which is rather slow, these settings are VERY slow. With the pre-heat and dryers up to max, it gives time for the ink to dry without much bleeding. But, like I said, the quality is still nowhere near proper dye-sub printing.
Play with profiles and different flag materials. The flag material I use is made by 3P textiles (from Germany I think)
The K20 is a different story.I get it from a supplier in South Africa. I have no further details on it – there is no markings on the roll etc. to indicate who produces it.
Like I said, I’ll post some pictures come Monday.
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buying roll materials to print a few metres is not profitable.
we printed some but we cannot offer it as a inhouse print service as it looks terrible.
I have started to print with UV tho, seems to work
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