Recent content by gazfocus

Thanks. I have gone to my dealer and asked if I can replace myself rather than waiting for an engineer to come. Hopefully they’ll just sent me a 2nd btr and instructions on how to do it. Thankfully it’s not impacting my stickers because who cares if the backing has a bit of toner on but it’ll...

Just a word or warning with the memjet printers…if you’re planning on printing on pre-cut labels, the likes of the vp700/L801 have very specific requirements (such as gaps between labels, if you’re doing circles you need black marks or our label supplier products circles in squares so the gap...

I must say I absolutely love how whenever a question is asked on this forum, Unfortunatley our Versant 80 started acting up again today. Got back up and running on Tuesday, printer about 1,000 sheets between yesterday and today and now we are getting black marks on the backs of prints, even...

Our minimum term on the Versant 80 runs to May 2025. We don’t have a lease as we bought the machine outright but as I say, do pay a minimum monthly service amount regardless of whether we use the machine or not.

The main problem is we are still in a service contract for our Versant 80 so we have to keep it running (it has a minimum monthly cost so would be quite costly to just not use the machine). An old machine might not be the best option, I’m 100% in agreement with that. In the next 12 months I’d...

We already have two mimaki print and cut machines (CJV150’s) and also a VP700 roll to roll label printer but the bulk of our production is flat sheets of stickers. The sort of orders we do on flat sheets are not suitable for solvent printing really. A lot are eco conscious where we use...

To be honest, I won’t be happy unless I get a backup machine now. As I say, this past two weeks has been an utter nightmare. We’ve had orders piling up and while we’ve managed to get away with doing some very specific orders on our Konica MFP, the quality of the MFP is nowhere near good enough...

The main issue is I’m tied into a minimum contract with the current service guys and even if I could wriggle out of it because of their performance, I’d have to then pay for a new provider to refurbish the machine to their standard before they would take it on I imagine. From what I’ve been...

Our old Xerox C560 was from a dealer that fully refurbed the printers to Xerox spec before delivery and then get them back on a service contract with Xerox direct and they were really excellent to deal with. We had toner on tap (so to speak), Xerox engineer was out within a day and had a car...

What’s your impression overall of the quality from the c75? A lot of the stickers we do are quite high coverage ink wise the price we sell for makes the toner cost a none issue really.

I should also reiterate, I would much rather have a ‘backup’ machine sat in the corner at work and never need it, than not have it there just in case at the moment. The last 2 weeks have been hell without a working printer.

100% agree with this. Our engineer visit today was because our fuser belt had delaminated and needed replacing. It’s our 2nd belt replacement in 6 months and the engineer said they’re about £600 even before their callout fee. A full fuser for a C60 can be bought for around £300 on eBay.

Our Xerox engineer (remember not employed by the dealer so no incentive to try and sell me anything) says that ideally a Versant 80 needs to be running 5k sheets a day to keep it happy. We probably print about 100 - 150 sheets per day most days and most of that is stickers at the moment. There...

I'm looking for a machine as a backup machine that I'll service/maintain myself. I'm aware these machines are old but the issue I'm having with our Versant 80 is that (according to our engineer) we are not using it enough to keep it happy so I having another Versant to sit in the corner until...

Thanks for this. If I was buying for our main press, I'd definitely get a service contract, and I doubt Xerox would even be an option at this point as I'm so frustrated with how long it's taken our dealer to get the Versant 80 back up and running (almost 2 weeks without a press). That said, I...