Flatbed Printer

[postnetnc133]

What about Mimaki's hybrid eco-solvent printer, anyone know anything about it? I know Oce is incredible but it is also 3-4+ times the price.

[Steve Werner]

HP makes some nice machines as does Inca. The main machines I see running in the marketplace for high production are the Inca's and the Vutek's although HP is coming on quickly. The issues you will probably have with the Fuji, Vutek, or any of the mid level machines is the speed. If they are kicking out 16 sheets an hour your looking at running 200 hours a month ( +/- a few hours ) to produce what you're looking to accomplish. I would recommend looking at something like the Inca or the HP if price is of little concern because their higher end machines would also give you flexibility to produce other jobs rather than tying up the one machine because of it's slow speed.

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[indy jones]

We are currently look at Fuji Acuity, Oce 550 and Screen Flatbed. We are demoing the rips that each manufacture recommends for each printer. We supplied them with material and a file of our test charts to print on each printer. We also told them to use Gracol 7 icc profile as an input profile for color management on each rip. We will evaluate each print out visually and to Gracol 7 data set .

[Steve Werner]

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