offset media with inkjet printing

[Gramshi]

is it possible the print commercial coated and/or uncoated offset media with inkjet printer?
have anyone any experiment on this situation?

i try epson 7880 printer with ultrachrome vm ink but it's looks impossible.

 

[tbuccini]

It will not work and is not worth trashing your printer over. The newspaper market is a different story. Stick to a media that best simulates your press stock as there are plenty of them out there.

 

[paul@dpiartservices]

We have run some uncoated sheets, but most often they do not dry well. We have a spray booth and hit them with printshield and they are ok. We'll only do this with prints that do not require exact color, as testing and profiling is not usually worth it.

I would not run coated sheets ever.

 

[costeastefan]

Try with a UV printer.

 

[paul@dpiartservices]

UV printers (usually) do not have the resolution to satisfy a quality-minded client.

Not to give away my tricks too easily, but we have been known to utilize the UV source in conjunction with our printer to speed drying.

 

[paul@dpiartservices]

It will not work. The possible way is to learn to go book of manual.

Is that english?

Usually, when people make sweeping ignorant comments, I ignore them. Except in the cases where they are extremely so. Kudo's to you!

 

[gerrit]

The Roland LEC-300 (LED-UV) is able to print nicely on offset media though it is very slow.

 

[jribbe101]

I have been wondering the same thing myself. I have been testing various papers over the last few months trying to find which papers I can print using my inkjet. Here is some of the paper I have tested

Sappi McCoy Silk 130lb Cover,
Sappi Opus Dull Cover 120lb
Sappi Opus Dull Text 100lb
Sappi Opus Gloss Cover 120lb

These have been printed on 12 x 18 in sheets, and so far the quality has been hit or miss. I think that if I was using a RIP that could regulate the amount of ink sprayed it would work great. The Opus cover prints nice using the ICC profie for Epson premium presentation paper. But I am still working on testing all the different profiles etc, to see what works best. The McCoy Silk is pretty decent in terms of print quality also, depending on the amount of ink needed for the image, it can come out saturated. But I have printed many of business cards usings letter size sheets of McCoy Silk and they have come out great (double sided prints also).

I like to print on double sided media all the time. Finding an inkjet paper from epson, hp, etc. that has great whiteness and texture qualities and be printed on both sides is tough. I have tried most papers, so that is why i started testing commercial sheet fed papers on the inkjet. I have also found that using those same papers print very well on cheap HP printers from Office Depot using the stock profiles. The dye based ink on HPs seem to meld better to the paper.

 

[meddington]

There is the possibility of having offset media coated for inkjet use. Here are a couple links: www.pandptech.com
www.twproof.net

 

[jribbe101]

I forgot to add I am printing using an Epson R1800. I plan to buy an epson 7880 (using jon cone inks) or hp z2100 so we can print larger on these sappi papers.

Meddington... I checked those links out and plan to email the companies. thx for those.