HP or Epson

[brazil]

Hello, that's my first post here. I'm starting a road sing company and I'm with a lot of doubts about my first digital printer.
We found two good deals HP Latex 335 print and cut solution and Epson SureColor S40600.
I'd like to know which model is the best and the pros and cons of each.
Thanks for your help

 

[richsweeney]

What is a road sing company?

 

[victor bogdanov]

like asking ford vs chevy. Overall wont be a huge difference between the 2

 

[ikarasu]

If you're starting a road sign company.... Then you need HP Latex to be Traffic certified on 3M Materials.

If you're using Avery materials... you need a Trafficjet.

You can't just purchase any printer and print road signs - At least for north America... Maybe brazil has different laws / certifications.

 

[ToTo]

Traffic signs needs to be printed with red and blue, not cmyk. There are just a few, like Durst with 3M traffic ink. You need to have the tools to guarantee reflectivity and saturation. The first investment is huge regarding tools, training and certification.

 

[netsol]

Traffic signs needs to be printed with red and blue, not cmyk. There are just a few, like Durst with 3M traffic ink. You need to have the tools to guarantee reflectivity and saturation. The first investment is huge regarding tools, training and certification.

believe it or not, you can make red & blue with cmyk

in spite of mind boggling regulations and certifications, the traffic signs in new jersey are faded, before the lift trucks can drive away

 

[brazil]

If you're starting a road sign company.... Then you need HP Latex to be Traffic certified on 3M Materials.

If you're using Avery materials... you need a Trafficjet.

You can't just purchase any printer and print road signs - At least for north America... Maybe brazil has different laws / certifications.

Here we can use any printer. There isn't specific laws about it.

 

[ikarasu]

Here we can use any printer. There isn't specific laws about it.

Well, send your traffic materials to both printer manufacturers or sales reps and get a sample printed.

I know when we had our Solvent printer it wouldn't print on 3M Reflective vinyls - it'd mist a lot, and getting a headstrike on it was brutal.

Then you have Latex - If you print on engineer grade a lot (Not sure what brazil uses?) It'll wash off / delaminate with Latex, at least if using 3M 3290.

So it all depends on what is your material, if regulations are out of the equation.

 

[ikarasu]

Traffic signs needs to be printed with red and blue, not cmyk. There are just a few, like Durst with 3M traffic ink. You need to have the tools to guarantee reflectivity and saturation. The first investment is huge regarding tools, training and certification.

That was 10 years ago. You no longer need a 100K Durst to print traffic...you can use a 20K Latex printer.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/road-safety-us/applications/traffic-sign-manufacturing/digital-printing-traffic-signs/?utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=vanity-url&utm_campaign=3m.com/digital4traffic

Avery has a Solvent printer, I dont believe it uses red... but I dont know avery enough to be right / wrong about it!

I believe Nikkalite uses Seikos... also with no red.

 

[bdw99]

Just to warn you HP is a Nightmare when it come to support.