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Roland VersaUV advice
Anybody on the signboard running a VersaUV printer/cutter yet?
Would love to here how you are getting on with it – running costs, wish lists etc.
It looks like it would be perfect for our business but the outlay and potential costs seem prohibitive although if it really is that good it may well be worth it.
I intend having another good look at the NEC this month but it would be useful to get a heads up from any users here.Thanks
Colin
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Firstly I don’t have one. But I know someone who has. I can’t really see how this machine could be viable for the print for pay market. In terms of the throughput and the costs associated with the work. The person I know who uses it prints custom book covers on it that are one off custom pieces basically onto leather etc.
It probably would also be suitable for prototyping product packaging.
Hope that helps.
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Hi Jason
It seems that most of the installations are for prototyping etc but as long as ink costs aren’t exorbitant I don’t see why these couldn’t be used for high value jobs as well as the run of the mill work. We produce a lot of quality/high value decals on either a mimaki cjv or gerber edge but when using the cjv (full solvent) since most decals have to be cut through the print we have to wait 24 hours before cutting which defeats the object of a print/ cut machine. It would be so much more productive for us to be able to send a job that actually prints and cuts in one process. Latex print could be the answer in future but I don’t think there is a print/cut option yet? We are also looking at a dc4sx but think that the overlap banding problem may not be acceptable.Does anyone know if the uv ink used is flexible and resistant to cracking?
Thanks
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I’m in a similar situation to yourself.
The ink flexibility on the samples I had sent were pretty good. I didn’t notice any cracking or flaking of the sort on semi rigid PVC material.
My only problem was the the throughput in terms of how much the machine can physically produce in a day and how much I’d need to sell that output for.
In my certain case it wasn’t a viable business proposition.
We moved a lot of our label work to our Primera Label press. I can print and cut 10,000 labels in a couple of hours and have them out the door before Flexo guys have even finished making plates.
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I have not previously seen the primera systems which are very interesting. However our decals have to be on flexible vinyl and occasionally fuel-proof so not really suitable for the medias printable with laser technology. White print on clear is also a must for some products which have running on both printers. I suppose what we do for this side of the business is more in line with manufacturing than sign making so probably fitting more into the niche gap the versauv seems to aim at. Will still need to check the running costs though.
Colin
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