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Paper Photo Printer advice
Hi
I am thinking of printing on paper for posters, short run leaflets and promo stuff and was wondering if anyone had any advice. I have a Roland Versacamm vp300 and know this can print on paper but I suspect that it is primarily a vinyl printer and wont be very economical to print leaflets etc
Also it doesn’t print photos very well (bit grainy)
HP maybe????
Cheers
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7 Replies
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Your Roland should print pretty reasonable posters. There are a few satin solvent papers out there that give good results, but I would run the heaters lower than you would for vinyls and banners. Probably low 20’s.
Stafford
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mines great on paper.
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Ok but is it economical?
I have to admit to not getting great results with photos, they are always aq little grainy and put this down to the fact that it was a vinyl printer
I will have to test!
Cheers
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Printing leaflets on a large format solvent printer??? Are you mad??
A digital machine such as xerox is geared up for this, then add in a guillotine to cut them down and you’ll have a more realistic set up.
Depending on your costs, it’s often just as cheap to sub it out!
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I doubt even a dye or pigment large format printer will be particularly economical for stuff like that, then there is the time taken to cut them all up. Much better as David says with something that is geared up for that sort of work.
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Hi Paul wouldn’t even start to try printing posters on a vinyl machine most of the work is in the finishing
WE have two Konica digital printers which do the printing to A3+
A guilotine
A folder
A creaser
A business card cutter
A laminator
A calendar punch
Two booklet makersWE also have two HP printers for printing posters bigger than A3 up to A0
And we still find jobs that we need another machine for, digital paper printing is all about finishing, lots of little jobs so you need to be busy, outlay on machines is a lot but you make a lot
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Agree with Adrian,
We have a Xerox docucolor SRA3 machine on pay-per-click contract for short run leaflets, biz cards etc.
With a minimum amount of finishing equipment of guillotine, Creaser / perforator and Laminator(s).Anything over a set volume goes to our trade printer.
Posters / Gallery quality work we use a HP Z6200.
I’d look at using a trade printer, for find it far easier with less hassle.
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