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Solvent Inkjet Printer – Advice Please
Hi Everyone
I’m looking into printing full colour stickers, signs and t-shirts. My first post on the forum was which route to go – Screen printing or Vinyl printing. After loads of great advice i decided for vinyl. I’ve now contacted a few suppliers and a couple of them have mentioned solvent inkjet printers to me (Uniform CADET SP-750C or Roland Versacamm SP-300) which sound great but there’s a big price jump. I’d really like one machine that does everything above.
I understand there’s more you can do with the printers and it’s giving me a few ideas. I would really like to make a go of this as im a new mum and working from home would be ideal. I understand you need to spend money for quality but is there any cheaper machines or are these 2 my best ones to look at
Any advice from you guys would be a great help as im really a bit stuck on what to do
Thanks Lisa
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8 Replies
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hi Lisa
The Mutoh Value Jet printers are outstanding in all departments speed, ease of use, quality, maintenance and used with the Onyx rip colour issues seam to be a thing of the past.
We have had our 1604 for nearly a year now best bit of kit we have ever purchased. Before we purchased we took some files to Sign UK had them printed on a short list of machines that we were interested in and the VJ came out best so we bought the VJ and a Summa SE 1600 cutter with optical eye for couture cutting, both have turned out to be excellent machines.
Purchased both from Allan Flynn (Flynn Signs)
Hope this is of some help.
Cheers
Neil
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Hello
I recommend Roland VP-540, nice price, effective and VERY friendly menu!
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have a look at the 1204 Valuejet for the fantastic print quality. Also if you don’t already have a plotter and have the extra room, a separate plotter like the Summa mentioned will give you better capabilities for cutting and can be working while the printer is printing (once you get busy 🙂 )
Colin
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better than a versacamm?
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I think: No
(but in meaning VP! not SP series)
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In my opinion (which included a personal demo of the vp540 at Roland HQ) without a doubt!
But we print a lot of very small labels, text etc where this sort of quality is necessary, so it’s horses for courses.
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It depends what you want to do. Have a machine that does everything all in one package, or have the flexibility of a stand alone printer & cutter.
If the latter option appeals more to you, the Mutoh Valuejet is a great option, but be aware of awkward printer widths which will lead to large amounts of wasted media in the future as your supplier will have to cut the materials to size.
If you want an all-in-one package, the Roland Versacamm VP Series is definitely the way to go!
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Point taken on printer width but many suppliers are recognising the significance of the Mutoh and are offering 1200 wide material which is board width after all. Spandex offer virtually all their range in the 1200 width and hexis offer free cutting to any size. Re material waste, even with the 1200 width I am surprised how much unprinted material I have to throw away with wide format work. So much so that I have now invested in smaller widths of material (915, 760 etc) to try and keep waste to a minimum.
Colin
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