Hi, the 80600 is our best selling print-only roll-to-roll machine. More importantly, our customers experience very little technical issues, compared to another Japanese brand (not Roland). Manual maintenance needed only every 3 weeks. The profiles you can download from Epsons Edge Dashboard are very good. Grey is grey, and Pantones match well. These profiles, embedded in EMX files, are also rip independent, so if you want to run the printer with Onyx, Caldera, Flexi, Epson’s Edge rip … the colors are the same. On 3M IJ40, I’ve measured Pantone colors and they were closer to the official lab values than a Pantone swatch book. Customers really like the fact that they don’t have to get brand colors right by trial and error. Most of the tech calls I get from customers are questions about switching color mode, like from 9C+cleaning to 9C+white or metallic (because they forgot my explanation and didn’t write anything down), and how to create and print files with spot inks.
Another big advantage: you getanding free output at 8pass HQ in dark blue, brown, you name it. Text and vector graphics are very sharp, even at 4 pass bi-directional. At a close viewing distance, HP latex output is very grainy compared to what the 80600 produces.
If you like very saturated colors, give the EpsonWideCMYK profile a whirl. It boosts saturation of CMYK graphics into Pantone area.
I don’t think the 80600 will be out of spare parts soon, because the 80600L was introduced only 2 years ago. It’s the same machine, but in full black and with a bulk ink system.
If printing on textiles, wall paper, (uncoated) poster paper, canvases are more your thing, then I would advise the R5000.
Good luck.
Another big advantage: you getanding free output at 8pass HQ in dark blue, brown, you name it. Text and vector graphics are very sharp, even at 4 pass bi-directional. At a close viewing distance, HP latex output is very grainy compared to what the 80600 produces.
If you like very saturated colors, give the EpsonWideCMYK profile a whirl. It boosts saturation of CMYK graphics into Pantone area.
I don’t think the 80600 will be out of spare parts soon, because the 80600L was introduced only 2 years ago. It’s the same machine, but in full black and with a bulk ink system.
If printing on textiles, wall paper, (uncoated) poster paper, canvases are more your thing, then I would advise the R5000.
Good luck.