printer for acrylic

[David Rowland]

UV Printing is an art, however I have such printer but a number of factors to take into account.

Hi volume of static electricity play havoc with printer heads. Anti static bars a must.
White has to be used on the printer weekly or it seizes up (unless u have a flush out method).
Smaller sheets require hold down, hard to do on moving belt printers.
surface prep maybe required for ink adhesion, but can mark marterial.
The head is close to the print, any further away causes static patterns

My advice…. printed clear vinyl applied to sheet and cut by hand.

[Jamie Wood]

I would look at a Mimaki UJF-3042, UJF-3042HG or UJF-6042.

[Robert Lambie]

it depends on the size of your project also!
will the project cover the majority of the printer costs, if not all?
UV flatbeds are not cheap, the mimaki is an option as jamie mentioned but still expensive.
my point is, if investing heavily, it maybe worth going the extra and getting a larger model for further projects. because sure as sugar your going to limit what you can offer.

alternatively, outsource the lot to a direct to substrate trade printer.

[Adrian Hewson]

Dave Rowland is spot on, and white is a night mare we have a n Annapurna M which is flatbed UV if we were printing A3 panels we would print a 10 by 5 and then cut on panel saw or laser cutter

[len heffer]

Thanks for advice guys. Dave will try the vinyl route, would save me lots of time and possible heartache.

Cheers Guys

[Stafford Cox]

Do a search on YouTube for my videos. I have some videos of a UV machine printing direct to red and clear acrylic using white ink. The results were incredible and very easy to do.

I won’t post any links as they’ll probably get deleted!!

Stafford

[Colin Crow]

We print this size acrylic on a Mimaki UJF3042HG with no problems at all and the face quality is great.

If you want to see a sample len just PM or email me (if possible) or get back to me and we will sort something.

Colin