How much for Ink?

[Richard Urquhart]

I have the same printer but never really worried me as the mark up is so great, however if you create a file full colour and send it to the rip you will see how much ink it will use, from this say 2.20cc of ink you can do the sums and work out the cost of ink per meter.

[Russell Huffer]

For costing purposes we use £5.00 per meter, we have a Mimaki JV33 and inks cost us £80.00 per 440 cart.

We use Wasatch RIP and this can give you a cost for every print telling you exactly how much of each colour used and the cost of it, we discovered the average cost is approx £3.00 per Meter, this is using variable drops and 720 x 720 resolution.

Hope this helps

Kind regards

Russell.

[Paul Seamer]

Hi Richard,

Where about does it say this? I can’t seem to find it.

Thanks
Paul

[Richard Urquhart]

Hi mate
when the file is ripped and sits in the window

click on the file
and the screen in the centre will say as follows

file attributes

document information

Job properties

and the last one down

ink consumption (cc)
Rich

[Paul Seamer]

I have put a file in the que A and it doesn’t say anything about Ink?

Sorry 😳

[Richard Urquhart]

are you running versaworks 3?

[Lorraine Clinch]

Hi Paul

I had the same problem, the roland engineer was out to checvk my machine over on Tuesday (Got a clean bill of health, I’m pleased to say!), and he got me to change the screen resolution. Now I can see the ink consumption!

Lorraine

[Gary Birch]

quote Lorraine Clinch:

Hi Paul

Now I can see the ink consumption!

Lorraine

Glad I wasn’t the only one then 😳 😳 :lol1:

[Paul Seamer]

It’s whatever the engineer installed when I bought the machine. Just says Roland Versaworks. I haven’t updated it as it’s not on the net and I have never had a problem.

Paul