Canon C1+ Vs Fuji Xerox machine. Gloss over print. Worth the extra effort?

[acacia print]

Anyone out there have one of either of these machines with the fifth gloss unit?

The Canon C1+ is slow on colour but apears to be great value and with the fifth unit to place a clear gloss on I am thinking that this might be a great little machine for short run work. I am sick of colour variations and this claims to fix that as well... what does everyone else think??

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Are there other machines that are better. What are the pit falls. I hear that the gloss costs more....

 

[design]

its an great machine to print on upto 256 gsm paper,amzing print quality

 

[acacia print]

Thanks, Is it any good on 300g stocks or 300g+?
That is where most of my current work is.

 

[design]

not recomonded since it would damage the fuser roller on regular use.you can look for iR ADV series which can print 300gsm paper

 

[acacia print]

Ok, thanks. Luckily we have a back up machine available. So I might still be able to go with this for our lighter stuff.

 

[acacia print]

What are the cost per sheet figures (in reality) for the fifth gloss unit. I hear that this is expensive and therefore a hard sell? Or do you think that the funtionality of this is worth the extra cost for customers?

 

[acacia print]

Also what does the C1 print like for front to back registration?

 

[design]

fifth colour toner need to be purchased from customer.it will be expensive compared to 4 colour.C1+ can do front and back printing upto 220gsm from tray

 

[acacia print]

Thanks. What is the tollerance for the front to back. And more importantly when you say the fifth colour (Gloss) is "expensive" what would that cost be. For Example. If I was to add a 50% coverage in the gloss would that add another 20% to my click rate or is it more likely to cost me 50%, 100% or a 1000%? Just trying to get a ball park figure to work with. If it was going to make the cost of printing a sheet 1.50 / SRA3 verses just 18 cents then that would let me know what I could expect to sell. not many would like to pay hundreds of dollers more for a gloss. Especially when i can do that as a sparate run on my offset gear.. Thats a good point. would the offset be a simpler cheaper way to do this??