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Roland VS-540i white overprint for window stickers
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the Roland VS-540i for producing window stickers, that would be placed on the inside of a window, and viewed from outside. Stickers range in sizes from 50x100mm to 200x700mm are to be produced.
I’m looking to print in reverse on static cling or clear vinyl, with white overprint, and then cutting out of the sticker – one media load in to printer, print & then cut.
Would this be a durable option, or would I be better off reverse printing and laminating with white vinyl, then cutting – media load, print, media off load in to laminator, laminate, re-load in to printer to cut.
My reason to prefer the first option is obviously the time saving of having to laminate, then reload and cut, but as I have only got a Roland SP540 at present, would the VS-540i be a suitable machine for this operation, or is my thinking of the work flow floored.
The white option on the VS-540i if I’m correct in understanding allows me to overprint a colour with white to make it vibrant when viewed from the front on a clear vinyl, is this done in the same print pass or does the printer move the media over the heaters first before overprinting with white?
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we have a vs540 wt met but not the latest max2 inks if you are thinking of buying a vs then take a file or 2 to roland and test for your self.
you may be disappointed by the speed of the white print and the lack of opacity.
the max2 inks are said to be better and you can have a double white set up so could be faster and better than ours.
printing and laminating white can be faster and cheaper than full white printing, we use it for spot colours on clear can be white under or over the top of colour print. -
Chris, is there a lot of white ink wastage and maintenace of the machine if you don’t backup regularly? We were interested in going down this route but were concerned with maintenance issues.
Jason
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Hope new year good for you.
Put it this way I still want a edge.
Maintenance easy with wt met just have to change the capping station every 6 or so months it will try to clog up.
My rules
when you tell it to print wt it will dump approx a quids worth of ink to refresh the ink in the head and dampers. But will not do it again for 8 hours after that if you tell it to print wt it will dump again
so pays to try and batch print jobs.
Shake wt and Mt carts every 3 days and or before printing those colours.
Never tell it to do a nossel check or extra cleans. Unless you have a real problem.It’s not a patch on the edge white but has its uses the max2 inks are said to be better but Roland shooting them self’s in the foot over not allowing them in the older vs. Is it a marketing ploy to use up older stocks first.
The print quality is very very smooth just love it.
My biggest gripe is with versaworks I can’t find a high quality photo setting or profile that can match my 10 year old pro11 on colour rip. -
Thanks for the feed back on my enquiry, not to sure what to do now as we aren’t huge users of our printing machine, and it may sit idle for weeks, I may look at the Gerber EdgeFX and keep the SP540 as a larger printer, and perhaps the Edge for the window stickers and badges.
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