Hello all, and Happy New Year.
I'm sorry to pickup this topic, the last post I saw was on august. But it's interesting, cause I have been work with MGI for 5 years, in Brazil....
About what Dzung wrote, there are a lot of things to be considered before any conclusion. The DP60 (and the DP8700 as well), will melt the plastic, but in different temperatures as the settings used on the Pilot. And, of course, any configuration on it to print or after to laminate, will depend the plastic kind and specs. The first thing is think is, if the plastic has or not prime coat.
MGI says his plastic doesn't need coat. This is correct, but we can use a lot of plastics (PVC, for ex.) w/wo coat to laminate.
And, of course, we never can compare the DP60 x DP8700, cause these machines have a lot of diffs. The biggest one is about the toner. The DP8700 has a "thin one" and "dry", Working on 1200 DPI. The DP60 works on 600 DPI. The range to configure the Pilot will differ a lot between them, and never a configuration on one will work on the same way on another model (DP60 x DP8700). I can say the same about the plastics.
I have a lot of customers here in Brazil, working on DP60/DP8700 and they're using differents laminating machines, with excellent results.
Continuing, about the photobooks. If we use the information about the engine (DP60 x C7000), this isn't correct, cause the C7000 must be compared with the DP8700. The DP60 is supposed to be compared to the C6500 KM. But, about the engines itself, the engines doesn't belong to KM, or to MGI. They're OEM engines, used by a lot of manufactors, as OCE, KM, MGI, Ricoh, etc. The big point is the electronics inside each one.
About the Ink coverage, I don't know what was the expectation, but here we never talk anything lower than 50%. Cause the coverage is usually missunderstood. We need to think about linear coverage, and never about density. The MGI works on density, but the coasts must be in linear measure.
About Indigo, I know about them too. They're amazing, specially cause the ink technology, but there is a lot of "hidden fees". On Indigo 5500, the big question is the One Shot Kit.
Please, I'm not a MGI salesman. But, on the last 20 years working with printers, I can say the MGI is the best to work with plastics. If the target is only papers, on simple formats and high production, I can point the Indigo. And, if the production is based on "short shots", with formats limited to 13'' on large, with simple papers too, I can point the KM C7000.
And, of course, there is a lot of things to discuss about, but there is no enough space here to do it. I just want to help a little about the discussion.
Oh, and sorry for my english... as I said, I'm in Brazil.
See you....
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