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Is there anywhere I can source 3.2m wide SA vinyl?
Just purchased a 3.2 metre wide printer
Is there anywhere I can source 3.2m wide SA vinyl
There is a large amount of suppliers for banner material that wide
the biggest width for vinyl i can find is 2metre
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the people you purchased it from should be able to point you to a wide vinyl supplier?
can’t help you of course, but someone should know here.
welcome to the boards too 😛
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as a matter of interest, which machine and how are you setup, can you give an intro to yourself?
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Dont want to sound out of order, but if I was spending big money on a wide printer, I would have looked at material supply before purchasing.
just advice for anyone.
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quote Peter Normington:Dont want to sound out of order, but if I was spending big money on a wide printer, I would have looked at material supply before purchasing.my thoughts also…..would have done my homework before buying, as i take it your printer wasnt cheap stepen, but dont worry someone on the boards will hopefully get you a supplier 😉
nik
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….of course printing vinyl 3.2 wide is one thing, fitting it would be another 😕
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My big question would be how easy is it to lift a 50m roll of vinyl 3.2 M in length. I struggle to lift a 715mm roll of vinyl and I’m no wimp 😕
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quote Phill:My big question would be how easy is it to lift a 50m roll of vinyl 3.2 M in length. I struggle to lift a 715mm roll of vinyl and I’m no wimp 😕
If you can afford a printer this large, you should also be able to afford the mechanical handler, or labour to load it for you,
Peter
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i struggle with 1580mm rolls of banner, vinyl can be a bugger and I aint that fit at all!
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quote Dave Rowland:i struggle with 1580mm rolls of banner, vinyl can be a bugger and I aint that fit at all!Just out of curiosity, what make of banner are you usimg Dave?
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well we are now on Dickson single sided again JET550 i think it’s called.
We have recetnly been using Tepede and Vuflex. Seen some others there which I don’t know what they are called as I didn’t order them. -
Thanks Dave, do you buy direct from Dicksons or through someone else?
We’ve been using a lot of Zerox banner, but always on the look out for another supplier!
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we now buy from Applied Image Technology Chris, we used to import before that. Is that Xerox your refering to, I have noticed the Dickson product gets rebadged a few times here in the uk, seem other companies selling it under their own brand names.
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Also buying from AIT…….
having problems with ink sitting on the underside of the double-sided Dickson Banner material [Dave?]
Cheers
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quote Peter Normington:Dont want to sound out of order, but if I was spending big money on a wide printer, I would have looked at material supply before purchasing.
just advice for anyone.
PeterHello and many thanks for the replies
The printer is mainly for backlit banners and building wraps. We have a soljet for our vinyl work. I was just curious about 3.2 metre wide vinyl , for timesaving reasons.
When you buy new machinery your are always looking for the maximum capabilites. When we purchased our soljet , for all our prior research we never thought we would be using it for contravision, canvas and mesh prints . it was bought mainly for printed foamex panels and posters..
In response to dave we have just purchased the new DGI machine from Grafityp. we should have it installed within the next few weeks
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Grafityp are regular posters here I suspect they will have some suggestions for you.
Good luck with you new purchase. Is the DGI UV based or solvent?
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quote Dave Rowland:Grafityp are regular posters here I suspect they will have some suggestions for you.Good luck with you new purchase. Is the DGI UV based or solvent?
Full solvent Dave 😀
Our production plant in Belgium say in reference to 3.2 mtr wide vinyl, they cannot get the backing paper supplied in that width hence they cannot produce 3.2 wide media.
Happy to oblige
Nigel
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if there is no supplier of 3.2 wide
what is the maximum width vinyl available
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Stephen the widest we supply in printable vinyl is 1525mm
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quote :In response to dave we have just purchased the new DGI machine from Grafityp. we should have it installed within the next few weeks[/quote]
if this is the machine i was having a look at, at signuk its a real nice bit of kit… and VERY low running costs at that from memory. is it a full solvent machine mate? cant remmebr right but i know i did the old metholated spirits test on some banner printed and it did NOT budge. 😀
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sounds very interesting, also Nigel, think you lot need to source wider materal, sounds like an empty marketplace then.
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It is the polajet. It is there latest machine, info can be found on grafityp website. We went out to Korea with Joe from grafityp. And were all very impressed, compared to our soljet it is absolutely huge, 5 metres wide, 2 metres high. Of course our budget coudn’t stretch to the Nur or Scitex machines . But we did view two other machines, one being the Keundo SupraQ, and found the DGI to be better and a lot cheaper. It is being shipped from Korea at the moment and should be with us shortly
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