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  • HP Latex Media – wallpaper, backlit etc.

    Posted by Hugh Potter on February 3, 2017 at 6:38 pm

    Hi all you gorgeous Latex owners…

    I would like to make a few comparisons on prices for the genuine HP vinyls and films (wallpapers, textile, backlit, etc.) as I’m interested in trying a few of these out. Could you please who you buy these materials from? I’ve tried a couple of my usual suspects but none seem to carry much of the range.

    TIA,
    Hugh

    Myles Brewer replied 5 years, 9 months ago 7 Members · 11 Replies
  • 11 Replies
  • Luke Culpin

    Member
    February 3, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    I believe perfect colours should stock a decent range! To be honest I never use any of the HP products, I too would be interested to see the difference with using them though!

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    February 4, 2017 at 7:26 pm

    Thanks Luke,
    I did ask them for their HP range and I got a big list with all materials suitable, haven’t been through it properly but didn’t think there were a lot of the products I have on an HP latex swatch. I’ll look through it properly.

    Hugh

  • A.Kordowski Andy Kordowski

    Member
    February 6, 2017 at 9:36 am

    When i first bought my Hp Latex i got 5 free rolls of substrate, only 5m of each i remember getting:

    HP Air Release
    HP Contravision
    HP Backlit Polyester
    HP Heavy Textile Banner
    HP PVC Wall Paper

    Only having 5m of each didn’t really allow me to be able to use them on live jobs. So when a job came in id source a alternative and also ran a test on the HP substrate and to be honest didn’t really see any difference in print quality etc. So personally i dont use any HP substrate which is a lot dearer than most other substrates.

    Andy

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    February 6, 2017 at 2:46 pm

    Thanks Andy,
    The HP prices I’ve seen so far don’t appear overly expensive, I have opportunity to do a few jobs coming up that could be worth moving more into and the HP pvc freee wallpaper, for example, comes highly recommended by a colleague.

  • Stafford Cox Stafford Cox

    Member
    February 7, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    I’ve run some wallpaper and backlit samples on our Ricoh latex for a couple of customers and the results were fantastic!! I used:

    Metamark MD-WA – Self adhesive Wallart Artisan
    This looked really good. I never get involved in the fitting of the media but I’ve heard it’s really easy to work with.

    Hydrosol GL Backlit – 200mic gloss
    This was incredible. We ran it single strike 16p (no overprint) and the results were out of this world!!

    We’ve still got some of the backlit so let me know if you want any samples made up.

    Stafford

  • RickJesse

    Member
    February 7, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    I’d recommend PSW Telford area we get our latex inks and HP media from them.

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    February 8, 2017 at 10:45 am

    thanks guys, plenty to think about.

  • Myles Brewer

    Member
    June 14, 2018 at 12:17 pm
    quote Hugh Potter:

    Hi all you gorgeous Latex owners…

    I would like to make a few comparisons on prices for the genuine HP vinyls and films (wallpapers, textile, backlit, etc.) as I’m interested in trying a few of these out. Could you please who you buy these materials from? I’ve tried a couple of my usual suspects but none seem to carry much of the range.

    TIA,
    Hugh

    Hi Hugh,
    Just wondering how you got on here regarding backlit & what you settled on as I’ve been using the HP polyester backlit matt & just went to reorder with the previous supplier only to find it had increased by €60 a roll!!!! :yikes: Time to look for an alternative, Do you use matt or gloss?

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    June 18, 2018 at 2:17 pm
    quote Myles Brewer:

    quote Hugh Potter:

    Hi all you gorgeous Latex owners…

    I would like to make a few comparisons on prices for the genuine HP vinyls and films (wallpapers, textile, backlit, etc.) as I’m interested in trying a few of these out. Could you please who you buy these materials from? I’ve tried a couple of my usual suspects but none seem to carry much of the range.

    TIA,
    Hugh

    Hi Hugh,
    Just wondering how you got on here regarding backlit & what you settled on as I’ve been using the HP polyester backlit matt & just went to reorder with the previous supplier only to find it had increased by €60 a roll!!!! :yikes: Time to look for an alternative, Do you use matt or gloss?

    Hi Myles,
    I’ve never actually used the backlit or roll-up films since posting this.

    Sorry!

  • Colin Crabb

    Member
    June 18, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    Metamark MD-T or MD-BL2 works beautiful on our Latex 360.

  • Myles Brewer

    Member
    June 18, 2018 at 9:37 pm
    quote Hugh Potter:

    quote Myles Brewer:

    quote Hugh Potter:

    Hi all you gorgeous Latex owners…

    I would like to make a few comparisons on prices for the genuine HP vinyls and films (wallpapers, textile, backlit, etc.) as I’m interested in trying a few of these out. Could you please who you buy these materials from? I’ve tried a couple of my usual suspects but none seem to carry much of the range.

    TIA,
    Hugh

    Hi Hugh,
    Just wondering how you got on here regarding backlit & what you settled on as I’ve been using the HP polyester backlit matt & just went to reorder with the previous supplier only to find it had increased by €60 a roll!!!! :yikes: Time to look for an alternative, Do you use matt or gloss?

    Hi Myles,
    I’ve never actually used the backlit or roll-up films since posting this.

    Sorry!

    Ha ha! No worries, work goes like that sometimes doesn’t it, tend to get runs on things & then nothing for months. Thanks for the reply anyway [emoji106]

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