victor bogdanov
Active Member
My Canon Colorado 1650 has been down for almost a week, I'm backed up with about 10k sq/ft to print and repairs could take a few more days. This is the first time I've been down for more than a day and the down time has made me realize it is probably a bad idea to rely on one printer without any redundancy. i have been able to print the most urgent orders on a friends epson 40600 and using that printer is making me wonder if switching the Colorado to 2x epson 60600L printers is the smart thing to do for redundancy.
I can buy a new epson every year for the price of the Colorado service contract, inks will be slightly more expensive on the 60600L and I'll lose out on some of the UV ink benefits but overall the printers will work for what I print and 2x 60600L will be about as fast as 1x Colorado. Way cheaper printer cost too.
Close to 800k sq ft on the Colorado in 2 years, almost no issues but now service tech is struggling to get it running, switched a few components so far, still same "48V voltage too low on Carriage PBA", switched out just about every part in that chain with 0 progress.
Now the printer has been sitting there without mixing inks or cleaning printheads for almost a week, so those two systems will need an overhaul too once the original problem is sorted
with 2 printers there is a good chance both won't break down at the same time and with the cost of 60600 compared to the cost of the colorado service contract I can buy a new printer every year....
Hmmm...
I can buy a new epson every year for the price of the Colorado service contract, inks will be slightly more expensive on the 60600L and I'll lose out on some of the UV ink benefits but overall the printers will work for what I print and 2x 60600L will be about as fast as 1x Colorado. Way cheaper printer cost too.
Close to 800k sq ft on the Colorado in 2 years, almost no issues but now service tech is struggling to get it running, switched a few components so far, still same "48V voltage too low on Carriage PBA", switched out just about every part in that chain with 0 progress.
Now the printer has been sitting there without mixing inks or cleaning printheads for almost a week, so those two systems will need an overhaul too once the original problem is sorted
with 2 printers there is a good chance both won't break down at the same time and with the cost of 60600 compared to the cost of the colorado service contract I can buy a new printer every year....
Hmmm...
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