Pigment quality Solvent printer

[Simon.Johnson]

I am interested to know your application for such a machine?

At the moment you can only get close. Epson have announced an "eco-solvent" printer which will start shipping in Oct/Nov this year which should meet your print quality criteria but what applications it would suit are not clear yet.

[Russell Huffer]

I run a Grenadier solvent Activasol inks and Designjet 5500 dye inks. Most of my work is for exhibitions and I use a product called Hydrosol on the solvent and the equialent product Ilford PDF7 on the dye, both of these are gloss lightstop materials.

I setup an exhibition toady at NEC and had 2 clients 1 printed solvent one printed dye this was done because of limited time to produce graphics but both have a laminate on them and there is not a lot of diffference between the two, you really do have to look hard.

If you want a better quality solvent I think you should make sure you look at six colour machine as a lot of the popular ones are only 4 colour but set up correctly once you are stood back 1/2 meter no easy task to tell apart.

Regards

Russell.

[Steve Vallis]

quote Simon.Johnson:

I am interested to know your application for such a machine?

At the moment you can only get close. Epson have announced an “eco-solvent” printer which will start shipping in Oct/Nov this year which should meet your print quality criteria but what applications it would suit are not clear yet.

I would like to be able to supply photographic quality prints & posters without having to laminate