Resolve printer

[Robert Lambie]

i believe "in its day" the resolve was a must have machine. these days i think it is a limited and more expensive type of printer to run. ide imagine parts would be discontinued… from memory you had to use special coated media also…
in a nutshell, i would NOT invest in such a machine.

[Peter Munday]

Untrue Rob, I have just replaced my old Resolve and although it was slow it was reliable and cheap. Print heads were £60.00 and you could replace them yourself. It ran using Activasol inks and would print on most flexible medias, in fact mine is still in the garden awaiting removal.

Peter

[Mark Elvidge]

don’t you mean the first generation soljet Rob?

Mark, the resolve is a re badged Roland machine by B&P. Either based on a cj500 roland print and cut machine or fj52 print only. not very fast, about 1.8m square per hour at 720×720. print quality can be very good though, its a fixed dot printer but you can choose between large or small dots.

will run from a free rip such as colorip and parts are readily available and reasonably priced.
if it is the first soljet, then it probably wont have heaters and will run on coated media as per Robs post. heater kits are available for these and will need fitting by a qualified elecy to be safe.

if it is a BP resolve then it will have heaters already.

so is it a roland or a is it a resolve?

[Robert Lambie]

hi peter…
ill be 100% mate, I’m not sure if i am speaking about the resolve you mention or the one mark mentions… but ide imagine the earlier machine…
i am basing my reply on a conversation with one of the guys that was behind either this machine or the original media for this machine a few years back, who i met over a few drinks at one of the mactac awards in i think "nottingham" where he was telling me all about this new machine about to hit the market.
since then, "years now" i have heard a few variations on views based on the machine of which i have just put down to progression of modern technology. As the machine is rather old in comparison to todays machines i guessed "like most of its age" parts would be discontinued´?

as i said before though…

quote :

i believe “in its day” the resolve was a must have machine.

i still think that ide go for something a bit more up to date. i guess if the machine was going for "a steal" ide consider other wise as 1.6m per hour is consideraly slow and i doubt as durable to todays standards. 😕